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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 59-1505

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Executor: includes an administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Whenever any bequest or devise is made to a testamentary trustee, the executor or administrator shall not be discharged, unless the will provides otherwise, until a trustee has qualified in a court of competent jurisdiction and until proof of such qualification has been made and a receipt by the trustee has been filed, except as otherwise provided. No executor or administrator who has received any funds for death by wrongful act shall be discharged until he or she has filed a certified copy of the order, judgment or decree of distribution of the court wherein such funds were recovered, and receipts from the persons entitled to such funds, or copies thereof certified by the clerk of such court. No executor or administrator who has been served with an order of garnishment, seeking to attach any funds or property of the estate to which the defendant in the garnishment proceedings is or may become entitled as a legatee or distributee of the estate, shall be discharged until obligations as garnishee shall have been satisfied in compliance with the order of garnishment and any further orders of the court from which said order of garnishment was issued.