Utah Code 75-3-901. Successors’ rights if no administration
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Terms Used In Utah Code 75-3-901
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Estate: includes the property of the decedent, trust, or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See Utah Code 75-1-201 v2
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- Property: includes both real and personal property or any interest therein and means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Utah Code 75-1-201 v2
- Successors: means persons, other than creditors, who are entitled to property of a decedent under the decedent's will or this title. See Utah Code 75-1-201 v2
In the absence of administration, the heirs and devisees are entitled to the estate in accordance with the terms of a probated will or the laws of intestate succession. Devisees may establish title by the probated will to devised property. Persons entitled to property by homestead allowance, exemption, or intestacy may establish title thereto by proof of the decedent‘s ownership, his death, and their relationship to the decedent. Successors take subject to all charges incident to administration, including the claims of creditors and allowances of surviving spouse and dependent children, and subject to the rights of others resulting from abatement, retainer, advancement, and ademption.