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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 700.3909

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Distributee: means a person that receives a decedent's property from the decedent's personal representative or trust property from the trustee other than as a creditor or purchaser. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, and includes both real and personal property or an interest in real or personal property. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
   If distribution in kind is made, the personal representative shall execute an instrument or deed of distribution assigning, transferring, or releasing the property to the distributee as evidence of the distributee’s title to the property.