Article 9 - PERSONS PRESUMED TO BE DEAD AND THEIR ESTATES
- Section 44-9-1 - When person presumed to be dead
- Section 44-9-1a - When person in military service presumed to be dead; administration of estate; when spouse may remarry
- Section 44-9-1b - When person in area proclaimed to be in a state of emergency presumed dead
- Section 44-9-2 - Jurisdiction of estate of supposed decedent
- Section 44-9-3 - Application for probate or administration, and publication of notice thereof
- Section 44-9-4 - Ancillary letters on estates of nonresidents supposed to be dead
- Section 44-9-5 - Evidence on such application; record thereof
- Section 44-9-6 - Order declaring presumption established; probate of will; letters testamentary or of administration; their effect; death certificate issued upon order
- Section 44-9-7 - Powers of clerk of county commission
- Section 44-9-8 - Personal representative to institute suit to settle such estate
- Section 44-9-9 - Publication in such suit
- Section 44-9-10 - Procedure when supposed decedent fails to appear
- Section 44-9-11 - Distribution of estate; refunding bonds
- Section 44-9-12 - Vacation of prior proceedings on reappearance of supposed decedent
- Section 44-9-13 - Final accounting of personal representative; effect of his acts; title of purchasers and distributees
- Section 44-9-14 - Substitution of supposed decedent in pending actions; opening judgments; effect of judgment after substitution
- Section 44-9-15 - When laws relating to wills and estates generally to govern
- Section 44-9-16 - Costs, by whom payable