Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 59-2229 (2026)

Admission of will probated outside state

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59-2229. Admission of will probated outside state. When a copy of a will executed outside this state and the probate of it, duly authenticated, is presented by the executor or any other person interested in the will, with a petition for its probate, the court shall fix the time and place for the hearing of the petition, notice of which shall be given to such persons and in such manner as the court directs. The title of any purchaser in good faith, without knowledge of the will, to any property derived from the fiduciary, heirs, devisees or legatees of the decedent shall not be defeated by the production of the will of the decedent and the petition for its probate after six months from the death of the decedent.

History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 205; L. 1982, ch. 235, § 3; L. 1983, ch. 189, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 191, § 36; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1981–1985 · leading case: Indiana Univ. Found. v. Reed, 693 P.2d 1156 (Kan. 1985).
Indiana Univ. Found. v. Reed, 693 P.2d 1156 (Kan. 1985). · cites it 7× “59-2229 and 59- *515 2230, holding that the statutes in effect prior to the 1982 amendments did-not authorize the admission of the document as a “foreign will” and that the 1982 amendments to those statutes did not operate retroactively. Thereafter, on June 17, 1983, industrious…”
Schillinger v. Indiana Univ. Found., 664 P.2d 824 (Kan. 1983). · cites it 6× “Whether it was ‘executed according to the law of the place in which it was made,’ however, we leave for resolution of the appropriate court in the event application for probate is later made under K.S.A. 59-2229, -2230. We leave also for resolution in an appropriate court…”
In Re the Est. of Reed, 625 P.2d 447 (Kan. 1981). “Whether it was “executed according to the law of the place in which it was made,” however, we leave for resolution of the appropriate court in the event application for probate is later made under K.S.A. 59-2229, -2230. We leave also for resolution in an appropriate court…”
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