Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.1201

Current through Public Act 171 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 700.1201 - Purposes; rules of construction

This act shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which include all of the following:

(a) To simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing individuals, protected individuals, minors, and legally incapacitated individuals.

(b) To discover and make effective a decedent's intent in distribution of the decedent's property.

(c) To promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating a decedent's estate and making distribution to the decedent's successors.

(d) To make the law uniform among the various jurisdictions, both within and outside of this state.

MCL 700.1201

Amended by 2009, Act 46,s 6, eff. 4/1/2010.

1998, Act 386, Eff. 4/1/2000.