2018 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 59 PROBATE CODE
Article 22 PROBATE PROCEDURE
59-2209 Notice by publication and mailing.
59-2209. Notice by publication and mailing. When notice of hearing is required by any provision of this act by specific reference to this section, such notice shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper of the county authorized by law to publish legal notices. The first publication shall be made within 10 days after the order fixing the time and place of the hearing and, within seven days after the first published notice, the petitioner shall mail or cause to be mailed, postage prepaid, a copy of the notice to each heir, devisee and legatee or guardian and ward, conservator and conservatee or guardian ad litem, as the case may be, other than the petitioner, whose name and address is known to the petitioner. A copy of the petition, any attachments to it and, when applicable, a copy of the will, accounting and settlement agreement shall be included with the notice, unless excused by court order. The date set for the hearing shall not be earlier than seven days nor later than 14 days after the date of the last publication of notice.
Whenever notice is mailed to a person residing in a foreign country, such notice shall be mailed by air mail.
History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 185; L. 1943, ch. 214, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 346, § 29; L. 1972, ch. 215, § 12; L. 1977, ch. 197, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 191, § 33; July 1.
