Utah Code § 75-1-102: Purposes -- Rule of construction.

(1) This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

(2) The underlying purposes and policies of this title are:

(a) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors, and incapacitated persons;

(b) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;

(c) to promote a speedy and efficient system for administering the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors;

(d) to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and

(e) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.