Subdivision 1.Support, maintenance, care, or burial.

When any person is furnished or provided with support, maintenance, care, including care at the University of Minnesota hospitals, or burial as a poor person the county so furnishing such aid shall have a claim therefor against the person or the person’s estate for the reasonable value thereof, which claim may be presented and prosecuted by such county at its option upon discovery of any property belonging to the poor person or to the estate.

Subd. 2.Claims filed in district court.

Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 261.04

  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44

Such claims, when against the estate of a deceased person, shall be filed in district court and acted upon as in the case of other claims.