The online version of the Minnesota statutes has now been updated for 2008 legislation. I like to bookmark chapter 524 of the Probate Code so that I can perform keyword searches throughout the entire chapter or read successive sections.
In my view, the most important change this year was to §524.2-402 (descent of homestead). The statute now makes explicit what many practitioners had always assumed– that a homestead is also exempt under the statute when it passes to a trustee of a trust of which the spouse or the decedent’s descendants are the sole beneficiaries.
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Errors in the Statutes
by Boyd Johnson on October 31, 2008
When you read through Minnesota’s statutes on probate, it is amazing what you find. In the past month, I’ve found three errors– statutes that refer to non-existent statutes.
Here’s the list:
Categorized in Commentary and tagged as errors, probate code, statutes
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