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Utah Code § 75-3-1006: Limitations on actions and proceedings against distributees.

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  1. Title 75 Utah Uniform Probate Code
  2. Chapter 75-3 Probate of Wills and Administration
  3. Part 75-3-10 Closing Estates

(1) Unless previously adjudicated in a formal testacy proceeding or in a proceeding settling the accounts of a personal representative or otherwise barred, the claim of any claimant to recover from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim, and the right of any heir or devisee or of a successor personal representative acting in their behalf, to recover property improperly distributed or the value thereof from any distributee is barred at the later of:

(a) as to a claim by a creditor of the decedent, one year after the decedent's death; and

(b) as to any other claimant and any heir or devisee, at the later of:

(i) three years after the decedent's death; or

(ii) one year after the time of distribution thereof.

(2) This section does not bar an action to recover property or value received as the result of fraud.

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