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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 59-809

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • 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.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

Any person, firm or corporation upon whom no demand has been made by a personal representative or other person authorized by this state to collect a nonresident decedent‘s personal property may, at any time three (3) months or more after the grant of letters in another jurisdiction upon the estate of the decedent (or, lacking notice of any such grant of letters within three (3) months after his or her death, then three (3) months or more after his or her death), transfer, pay or deliver intangible personal property of the nonresident decedent to the foreign personal representative or, if none, to such other person as may be entitled thereto, and shall not be liable for the debts of or claims against the nonresident decedent or his or her estate by reason of having made such transfer, payment or delivery.