Okla. Stat. tit. 84, § 84-22: Disclaimer of interests passing by will, intestate
Where this section sits in the code
- OK Code
- Title 84
succession, etc. - Definitions
As used in this act, unless otherwise clearly required by the
context:
1. "Beneficiary" means and includes any person entitled, but
for his disclaimer, to take an interest, by intestate succession; by
devise; by legacy or bequest; by succession of a disclaimed interest
by will, intestate succession or through the exercise or nonexercise
of a testamentary power of appointment; by virtue of a renunciation
and election to take against a will; as beneficiary of a
testamentary trust; pursuant to the exercise or nonexercise of a
testamentary power of appointment; as donee of a power of
appointment created by testamentary instrument; or otherwise under a
testamentary instrument;
2. "Interest" means and includes the whole of any property,
real or personal, legal or equitable, or any fractional part, share
or particular portion or specific assets thereof or any estate in
any such property or power to appoint, consume, apply or expend
property or any other right, power, privilege or immunity relating
thereto; and
3. "Disclaimer" means a written instrument which declines,
refuses, releases, renounces or disclaims an interest which would
otherwise be succeeded to by a beneficiary, which instrument defines
the nature and extent of the interest disclaimed thereby and which
must be signed, witnessed and acknowledged by the disclaimant in the
manner provided for deeds of real estate.
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