Minnesota Statutes 519A.01 – Application
This chapter applies to the disposition at death of the following property acquired by a married person:
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 519A.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) all personal property, wherever situated:
(i) which was acquired as or became, and remained, community property under the laws of another jurisdiction; or
(ii) all or the proportionate part of that property acquired with the rents, issues, or income of, or the proceeds from, or in exchange for, or traceable to, that community property; and
(2) all or the proportionate part of any real property situated in Minnesota which was acquired with the rents, issues, or income of, the proceeds from, or in exchange for, property acquired as or which became, and remained, community property under the laws of another jurisdiction, or property traceable to that community property.