Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates

Volume 1

Introduction

Title I Testamentary Capacity and Power

Chapter 1 Personal Disabilities of Testators
Chapter 2 Restraints on the Testamentary Power
Title II Execution and Revocation of Wills

Chapter 3 Manner of Executing Wills
Chapter 4 Manner of Revoking Wills

Title III Probate of Wills

Chapter 5 Uncontested Probates
Chapter 6 Contested Probates

Title IV Construction of Wills; Legacies and Gifts

Chapter 7 Construction of Wills
Chapter 8 Legacies and Gifts Mortis Causa

Volume 2

Title I The Appointment and Qualification of Executors and Administrators

Chapter 9 Status of Estate, and Rights and Liabilities Arising, Without Administration
Chapter 10 Appointment of Executors, and Acceptance or Refusal of the Office
Chapter 11 Appointment of Administrators
Chapter 12 Qualification, Letters and Bonds of Personal Representatives
Chapter 13 Revocation, Removal, Resignation and New Appointment; Transfer of Administration to New County

Title II Assets and the Inventory

Chapter 14 Assets of an Estate
Chapter 15 Inventory and Notification

Title III Rights, Powers, Duties, and Liabilities of Executors and Administrators

Chapter 16 Estate of the Personal Representative in the Assets of the Decedent and Remedies for Him
Chapter 17 Managing and Disposing of the Assets
Chapter 18 Liability of Executors and Administrators

Title IV Payments, Distributions and Settlements

Chapter 19 Debts and Claims Against the Estate
Chapter 20 Legacies and Distributive Shares
Chapter 21 Accounts and Settlements of Executors and Administrators

Title V Subjecting Real Assets And Administering Insolvent Estates

Chapter 22 Statutory Sales Of Real Estate For Payment Of Debts
Chapter 23 Administration Of Insolvent Estates

Title VI Simultaneous Death; Property Of Absentees; Taxes

Chapter 24 Simultaneous Death
Chapter 25 Estates Of Absentees
Chapter 26 Small Estates
Chapter 27 The Tennessee Inheritance Tax
Chapter 28 The Tennessee Gift Tax

Volume 3

Title I Will Forms

Chapter 29 Complete Forms Ofwills
Chapter 30 Will Clauses

Title II Probate Forms

Chapter 31 Probate
Chapter 32 Letters Testamentary and of Administration
Chapter 33 Claims Against Estate
Chapter 34 Entitlements of Surviving Spouse
Chapter 35 Contests
Chapter 36 Action to Construe Will
Chapter 37 Action to Establish Lost Will
Chapter 38 Disposition of Personalty
Chapter 39 Miscellaneous Probate Matters
Chapter 40 Sale of Land for Debts
Chapter 41 Distributions, Accounts, and Settlements
Chapter 42 Administration in Chancery Court
Chapter 43 Charts

Parallel References
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index