When a person dies, his or her estate is subject to court-supervised administration, a process referred to as probate. Probate enables persons who are entitled to receive it to inherit a decedent’s property, pursuant either to the terms of a will or Kentucky laws of intestacy, when the decedent dies without a will. Property – such as transfer-on-death accounts, survivorship interests, and trust accounts – that transfers automatically is not subject to probate. Title 34 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes governs probate proceedings in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, trustees use the same deed forms applicable to regular transfers to convey real property out of a trust. The type of deed required depends on the type of warranty of title the trustee wishes to convey.
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