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Probate & Trust Law Section Conference Manual ... - Minnesota CLE

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When - Minn. Stat. § 524.2-211(a).<br />

- Must be made within nine months after the date of the decedent’s death, or written<br />

six months after the probate of the decedent’s will, whichever is later.<br />

How - Minn. Stat. § 524.2-211.<br />

- By filing a petition in the Court and mailing or delivering a copy to the personal<br />

representative, if any.<br />

- Give notice of the time and place for hearing to interested persons and to the<br />

distributees and recipients of portions of the augmented estate whose interest will<br />

be adversely affected by the elective share:<br />

NOTE: If petition is filed more than 9 months after the decedent’s death, the<br />

decedent’s non-probate transfers to others are not included in computing the<br />

elective share.<br />

NOTE ALSO: If after filing, your client determines that she is better off without the<br />

elective share, she can withdraw her petition at any time prior to the Court making<br />

a final determination on the petition. Minn. Stat. § 524.2-211(c).<br />

7. PAYMENT OF THE ELECTIVE SHARE<br />

After going through all pertinent procedural steps and obtaining a favorable<br />

determination by the Court, the statute provides a roadmap on where the funds will be coming<br />

from to satisfy the spouse’s elective share. Under Minn. Stat. § 524.2-209, the elective share is<br />

paid in order from three buckets of available funds:<br />

(1) amounts which pass or have passed to the surviving spouse, whether testate or<br />

intestate and amounts of decedent’s non-probate transfer to the surviving spouse;<br />

(2) amounts which would have passed to the spouse but were disclaimed; and<br />

(3) surviving spouse’s property and non-probate transfer to others up to the applicable<br />

percentage thereof (the applicable percentage is twice the elective share percentage<br />

appropriate to the length of the marriage).<br />

If not satisfied with the above assets, then the surviving spouse’s share can be satisfied from<br />

the decedent’s probate estate and non-probate transfers to others.<br />

If the share is still not satisfied after applying the above, then the unsatisfied balance is<br />

paid from the remaining portion of the decedent’s non-probate transfers to others. This<br />

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