2007 Minnesota Statutes

524.3-105 PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING DEVOLUTION AND ADMINISTRATION;
JURISDICTION OF SUBJECT MATTER.
Any interested person in a decedent's estate may apply to the registrar for determination in
the informal proceedings provided in this article, and may petition the court for orders in formal
proceedings within the court's jurisdiction including but not limited to those described in this
article. Interim orders approving or directing partial distributions, sale of property or granting
other relief may be issued by the court at any time during the pendency of an administration on the
petition of the personal representative or any interested person. The court has exclusive jurisdiction
of proceedings, to determine how decedents' estates subject to the laws of this state are to be
administered, expended and distributed. The court has concurrent jurisdiction of any other action
or proceeding concerning a succession or to which an estate, through a personal representative,
may be a party, including actions to determine title to property alleged to belong to the estate, and
of any action or proceeding in which property distributed by a personal representative or its value
is sought to be subjected to rights of creditors or successors of the decedent.
The court shall not have jurisdiction of foreclosure of mechanic liens, or of any action
under section 573.02.
History: 1974 c 442 art 3 s 524.3-105; 1975 c 347 s 26; 1977 c 154 s 1; 1978 c 525 s
12; 1979 c 132 s 1; 1980 c 439 s 29