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- Wis. Stat. § 856.16 · Self-proved will.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.17 · Missing will, how proved.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.19 · Order admitting will.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.21 · Persons entitled to domiciliary letters.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.23 · Persons who are disqualified.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.25 · Bond of personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.27 · Appointment of special administrator if appointment of personal representative is delayed.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.29 · Appointment of testamentary trustee.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.31 · Selection of attorney to represent estate.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.01 · Ownership in personal representative; management and control.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.015 · Management and control of certain business property by holding spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.03 · Powers and duties of personal representative; in general.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.035 · Disposition of patient health care records.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.04 · Distribution of marital and other expenses.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.05 · Allowances to personal representative for expenses and services.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.07 · Allowances to personal representative for costs.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.09 · Procedure which may be followed when personal representative fails to perform.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.10 · Failure to comply with certain statutes.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.11 · Ordering personal representative to appear; costs.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.13 · Powers of surviving personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.15 · When personal representative removed, resigns.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.17 · Validity of acts of personal representative prior to removal.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.19 · When will proved after letters issued.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.21 · Appointment of successor personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.23 · Rights and powers of successor personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.25 · Continuation of business.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.27 · Personal representatives or trustees may form corporation or limited liability company.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.29 · Personal representative may plat land.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.31 · Immunity of personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 857.35 · Notification of spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.01 · Personal representative files.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.03 · Persons interested may be informed of inventory.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.05 · Order to file inventory.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.07 · Contents of inventory.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.09 · Inventory, certification, examination in court.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.11 · Inventory of partnership property and liabilities by survivor.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.13 · When appraisal necessary.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.15 · When appraisal not necessary.
- Wis. Stat. § 858.17 · Supplemental inventory and appraisal.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.01 · Time for filing claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.02 · Limitation on claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.03 · Continuance of separate action.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.07 · Notice; publication.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.09 · Transfer of claims when administration fails.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.13 · Form and verification of claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.15 · Effect of statute of limitations.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.17 · Claims not due.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.18 · Satisfaction of obligations at death of a spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.19 · Secured claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.21 · Contingent claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.23 · Payment of contingent claims by distributees.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.25 · Priority of payment of claims and allowances.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.27 · Execution and levies prohibited.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.29 · Persons interested may be informed of claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.31 · Compromise of claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.33 · Contest of claims; procedure.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.35 · Prompt judgment; hearing if claim filed over one year.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.37 · Judgment on claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.39 · Delay of payment of claims when funds are insufficient.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.40 · Creditor’s action for property not inventoried.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.41 · Creditor’s action for property fraudulently sold by decedent.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.43 · Encumbered assets; payment of debt.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.45 · Tort claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.47 · Payment of unfiled claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.48 · Claims of creditors without notice.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.49 · Last illness and funeral expense of deceased spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 859.51 · No impediment to summary settlement.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.01 · Power of personal representative to sell, mortgage and lease.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.05 · Free of creditor’s claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.07 · No warranties.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.09 · Contract of decedent to sell or lease land.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.11 · Special provisions in will; personal representative’s duty to persons interested.
- Wis. Stat. § 860.13 · Who not to be purchaser, mortgagee or lessee without court approval.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.01 · Ownership of marital property at death.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.015 · Satisfaction of nonholding spouse’s marital property interest in certain business property.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.018 · Definitions.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.02 · Deferred marital property elective share amount.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.03 · Augmented deferred marital property estate: decedent’s probate property and nonprobate or other property transfers.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.04 · Augmented deferred marital property estate: surviving spouse’s property and transfers to others.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.05 · Augmented deferred marital property estate: calculation of property interests.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.06 · Satisfaction of deferred marital property elective share amount.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.07 · Personal liability of recipients.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.08 · Proceeding for election; time limit.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.09 · Right of election by or on behalf of surviving spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.10 · Waiver of right to elect; failure to elect.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.11 · Protection of payers and other 3rd parties.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.17 · Rights in property transferred in fraud of surviving spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.20 · Surviving spouse’s right in nondomiciliary decedent’s real property in this state.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.21 · Assignment of home to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.31 · Allowance to family during administration.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.33 · Selection of personalty by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.35 · Special allowance for support of spouse or domestic partner and support and education of minor children.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.41 · Exemption of property to be assigned to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 861.43 · Authority and powers of conservator, guardian or agent.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.01 · When personal representative shall account.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.03 · Account of personal representative adjudicated incompetent, deceased, or removed.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.05 · What charged to personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.07 · Value at which to account; what accounts to contain.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.09 · Hearing on settlement of account; notice.
- Wis. Stat. § 862.11 · Copy of account to be given to persons interested.