TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT

PART 1.

SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-1-102.  Purposes — Rule of construction. (a) This code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

(b)  The underlying purposes and policies of this code are:

(1)  to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;

(2)  to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of his property;

(3)  to promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to his successors;

(4)  to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts;

(5)  to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.

History:

[I.C., sec. 15-1-102, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233; am. 1973, ch. 167, sec. 1, p. 319.]