{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-524.1-102","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 524.1-102","heading":"PURPOSES; RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.","body":"(a) This chapter and chapter 525 shall be liberally construed and applied to promote the underlying purposes and policies.\n(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter and chapter 525 are:\n(1) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;\n(2) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of property;\n(3) to promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to successors;\n(4) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.","path":["PROBATE; PROPERTY; ESTATES; GUARDIANSHIPS; ANATOMICAL GIFTS","CHAPTER 524. UNIFORM PROBATE CODE","Article 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT","Part 1 CITATION, CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/524.1-102","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:49Z","sha256":"c7b931a02c4b2bf3f75a976357616f84689bdbed1ce5feba1ddbf284ca6fd23b","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-524.1-101","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-524.1-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}