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Title 75 - Utah Uniform Probate Code
Chapter 3 - Probate of Wills and Administration
Part 10 - Closing Estates
Section 1006 - Limitations on actions and proceedings against distributees.
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UT Code § 75-3-1006 (2019)
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75-3-1006. Limitations on actions and proceedings against distributees.
Amended by Chapter 179, 1992 General Session
- (1) Unless previously adjudicated in a formal testacy proceeding or in a proceeding settling the accounts of a personal representative or otherwise barred, the claim of any claimant to recover from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim, and the right of any heir or devisee or of a successor personal representative acting in their behalf, to recover property improperly distributed or the value thereof from any distributee is barred at the later of:
- (a) as to a claim by a creditor of the decedent, one year after the decedent's death; and
- (b) as to any other claimant and any heir or devisee, at the later of:
- (i) three years after the decedent's death; or
- (ii) one year after the time of distribution thereof.
- (2) This section does not bar an action to recover property or value received as the result of fraud.
Amended by Chapter 179, 1992 General Session
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