Probate is the court-overseen process by which property is transferred to a decedent’s distributees and/or heirs upon death. A distributee is any person who receives a decedent’s property other than as a purchaser or creditor, and an heir is a person entitled under Idaho’s laws of intestate succession to receive property (I.C. §§ 15-1-201(11), 15-1-201(22)). The Uniform Probate Code is codified at Title 15 of the Idaho Revised Statues.
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When choosing a trustee’s deed in the State of Idaho, it is important to understand the difference between the two very different types of conveyances the term can refer to: the trustee’s deed as used in estate planning, and the trustee’s deed upon sale, used in cases of foreclosure of a deed of trust.
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