TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 3

PROBATE OF WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION

PART 1.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-3-109.  Statutes of limitation on decedent’s cause of action. No statute of limitation running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent which had not been barred as of the date of his death, shall apply to bar a cause of action surviving the decedent’s death sooner than four (4) months after death. A cause of action which, but for this section, would have been barred less than four (4) months after death, is barred after four (4) months unless tolled.

History:

[I.C., sec. 15-3-109, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233.]