Printable Format59-514. Intestate descent; escheat, when. If an intestate decedent leaves no person entitled to receive property of the decedent as said intestate's heir under the provisions of K.S.A. 59-503 to 59-513, both sections inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, then and in that event said intestate's property shall pass to the living heirs of the intestate's last spouse dying prior to the death of the intestate and if there be no such heir or heirs, then the estate shall escheat to and become the property of the state.
History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 36; L. 1963, ch. 298, § 1; June 30.
Source or prior law:
22-1315, 58-2707, 58-2708.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Survey of law of administration of estates, Richard C. Harris, 12 K.L.R. 127, 128 (1963).
Survey of law of real property and future interests, James K. Logan, 12 K.L.R. 305, 308 (1963).
"Intestate Succession in Kansas," Jay Scott Brown, 8 W.L.J. 284, 298, 300, 301 (1969).
Attorney General's Opinions:
Eligibility requirements for social welfare recipients; claims against estates of certain recipients. 92-156.
Citizens' rights and immunities; escheat of abandoned bank deposits to city. 94-24.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Mentioned in construing 59-508; property escheated to state. In re Estate of Brown, 168 K. 612, 613, 614, 215 P.2d 203.
2. Cited; assertion of rights under postnuptial contract not claim against estate. McCormick v. Maddy, 186 K. 154, 163, 348 P.2d 1007.