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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 394.420: Contribution, when devised estate used for payment of testator's debt.

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  1. KRS Chapter 394

(1) When any devised estate, real or personal, is taken from the devisee for the payment

of a debt of the testator, or one (1) of the devisees pays such debt to save his devise,

each of the other devisees shall contribute his proportion of the debt, interest, and

costs to the person paying the same, according to the value received by him.

(2) If the testator has, by will, made other provision for the payment of his debts,

subsection (1) shall not apply except to the extent that such provision and the

testator's undevised estate is deficient. The remedy of such devisee in the first

instance shall be against the person holding the provision, and against the undevised

estate.

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