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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 392 DOWER AND CURTESY
392.140 Sale or mortgage of dower or curtesy interest of mentally disabled spouse.
Download pdfCourt of the county in which is situated land belonging to the spouse of such disabled
person may, upon the petition of the spouse of the mentally disabled person, adjudge the
sale and conveyance, or the mortgage, of the inchoate right of dower or curtesy of the
person under disability. The mentally disabled person and his guardian or conservator, if
he has one, shall be made defendants to the action; if he has no guardian or conservator,
the court shall appoint an attorney to defend for him, to whom the court shall make a
reasonable allowance to be paid by the spouse of the mentally disabled person. A
description of the land shall be given in the petition and the evidence of title of the spouse
of the mentally disabled person filed therewith. If the court is satisfied by the proof that
the mentally disabled spouse is a confirmed mentally disabled person, it may adjudge the
sale and conveyance, or mortgage, of her inchoate right of dower or his inchoate right to
curtesy in said land, and if the mentally disabled spouse has a guardian or conservator, the
court may direct that he unite with the spouse of the mentally disabled person in the deed
or mortgage; if the mentally disabled spouse has no guardian or conservator, the court
shall appoint a commissioner who shall unite with the spouse of the mentally disabled
person in the deed or mortgage. Before any judgment pursuant to this section shall be
rendered, the spouse of the mentally disabled person, with at least two (2) good sureties,
shall execute before the court a covenant to the Commonwealth for the benefit of the
mentally disabled spouse, to be approved by the court, that the mentally disabled spouse
will be paid the value of his right of dower or curtesy in the land should such right
thereafter become complete. Effective: July 1, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 103, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 386, sec. 85. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 152, secs. 2 and 3. --
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat.
sec. 2145. Note. 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 117 would have amended this section effective July 1, 1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141,
sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.
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