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Wisconsin Probate & Estate Planning Statutes 2025

Product ID: AK0432E25
Published By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
ISBN: 978-1-57862-733-2

Find what you need faster amidst the complex and dynamic laws pertaining to probate and estate issues with the 2025 edition of Wisconsin Probate and Estate Planning Statutes.

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Find what you need faster amidst the complex and dynamic laws pertaining to probate and estate issues with the 2025 edition of Wisconsin Probate and Estate Planning Statutes.

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600+ pp.; 2025
Updated annually
8-1/2" x 11" paperback

I. SELECTED STATUTES FROM CHAPTERS 19 - 77

Chapter 19: General Duties of Public Officials

Chapter 24: Public Domain and the Trust Funds

Chapter 32: Eminent Domain

Chapter 40: Public Employee Trust Fund

Chapter 45: Veterans

Chapter 46: Social Services

Chapter 48: Children’s Code

Chapter 49: Public Assistance and Children and Family Services

Chapter 52: Supported Decision‐Making Agreements

Chapter 53: Uniform Adult Guardianship Jurisdiction

Chapter 54: Guardianships and Conservatorships

Chapter 55: Protective Service System

Chapter 69: Collection of Statistics

Chapter 70: General Property Taxes

Chapter 71: Income and Franchise Taxes for State and Local Revenues

Subchapter I: Taxation of Individuals and Fiduciaries

Subchapter II: Special Provisions Applicable to Fiduciaries

Subchapter XIII: Interest and Penalties

Chapter 72: Estate Tax

Chapter 77: Taxation of Forest Croplands; Real Estate Transfer Fees; Sales and Use Taxes; County and Special District Sales and Use Taxes; Managed Forest Land; Economic Development Surcharge; Local Food and Beverage Tax; Local Rental Car Tax; Premier Resort Area Taxes; State Rental Vehicle Fee; Dry Cleaning Fees

Subchapter II: Real Estate Transfer Fee

 

II. SELECTED STATUTES FROM CHAPTERS 102 - 183

Chapter 102: Worker’s Compensation

Chapter 108: Unemployment Insurance and Reserves

Chapter 109: Wage Payments, Claims and Collections

Chapter 112: Fiduciaries

Chapter 113: Uniform Joint Obligations Act

Chapter 125: Alcohol Beverages

Chapter 140: Notaries Public; Notarial Acts

Chapter 146: Miscellaneous Health Provisions

Chapter 154: Advance Directives

Chapter 155: Power of Attorney for Health Care

Chapter 157: Disposition of Human Remains

Chapter 177: Uniform Unclaimed Property Act

Chapter 178: Uniform Partnership Act

Chapter 179: Uniform Limited Partnership Act

Chapter 180: Business Corporations

Chapter 182: Miscellaneous Corporate Provisions; Turnpike Corporations

Chapter 183: Limited Liability Companies

 

III. SELECTED STATUTES FROM CHAPTERS 215-551

Chapter 215: Savings and Loan Associations

Chapter 219: Investments

Chapter 223: Trust Company Banks and Other Fiduciaries

Chapter 226: Foreign Corporations

Chapter 243: General Provisions Relating to Fraudulent Conveyances and Contracts

Chapter 244: Uniform Power of Attorney for Finances and Property

Chapter 292: Remedial Action

Chapter 302: Prisons; State, County and Municipal

Chapter 342: Vehicle Title and Anti-Theft Law

Chapter 403: Uniform Commercial Code — Negotiable Instruments

Chapter 404: Uniform Commercial Code — Bank Deposits and Collections

Chapter 445: Funeral Directors

Chapter 551: Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law

 

IV. SELECTED STATUTES FROM CHAPTERS 700-815

Chapter 700: Interests in Property

Chapter 701: Trusts

Chapter 702: Powers of Appointment

Chapter 704: Landlord and Tenant

Chapter 705: Multiple-Party and Agency Accounts; Nonprobate Transfers at Death; Transfer on Death Security Registration

Chapter 706: Conveyances of Real Property; Recording; Titles

Chapter 711: Digital Property Chapter 757: General Provisions Concerning Courts of Record, Judges, Attorneys and Clerks

Chapter 757: General Provisions Concerning Courts of Record, Judges, Attorneys and Clerks

Chapter 766: Property Rights of Married Persons; Marital Property

Chapter 767: Actions Affecting the Family

Chapter 770: Domestic Partnership

Chapter 786: Disposition of Lands of Wards; Specific Performance; Change of Names; Establish Heirships

Chapter 801: Civil Procedure — Commencement of Action and Venue

Chapter 803: Civil Procedure — Parties

Chapter 806: Civil Procedure — Judgment

Chapter 813: Injunctions, Ne Exeat and Receivers

Chapter 814: Court Costs, Fees, and Surcharges

Chapter 815: Executions

 

V. WISCONSIN PROBATE CODE

Chapter 851: Probate — Definitions and General Provisions

Chapter 852: Intestate Succession

Chapter 853: Wills

Chapter 854: Transfers at Death — General Rules

Chapter 856: Opening Estates

Chapter 857: Powers and Duties of Personal Representatives

Chapter 858: Probate – Inventory

Chapter 859: Probate – Claims

Chapter 860: Probate – Sale, Mortgage and Lease of Property

Chapter 861: Probate – Family Rights

Chapter 862: Probate – Accounts

Chapter 863: Closing Estates

Chapter 865: Probate – Informal Administration

Chapter 867: Probate – Summary Procedures

Chapter 868: Probate – Ancillary Procedures

Chapter 877: Actions by and Against Personal Representatives, Heirs, and Legatees

Chapter 878: Probate Bonds

Chapter 879: Probate — Notice, Appearance, Appeal and Miscellaneous Procedure

 

VI. SELECTED STATUTES FROM CHAPTERS 881-990

Chapter 881: Trust Fund Investments

Chapter 882: Adoption of Adults

Chapter 893: Limitations of Commencement of Actions and Proceedings; Procedure for Claims Against Governmental Units

Chapter 895: Damages, Liability, and Miscellaneous Provisions Regarding Actions in Courts

Chapter 938: Juvenile Justice Code

Chapter 943: Crimes Against Property

Chapter 990: Construction of Statutes

 

VII. UNIFIED CREDIT AGAINST ESTATE TAX (I.R.C. § 2010)

 

INDEX

 

The 2025 Edition includes recent legislation that:

  • Allows for a question on income tax forms to add a taxpayer’s name to a record of potential donors of anatomical gifts and the conditions for revoking the anatomical gift
  • Changes the keeping of death records, including inclusion of a decedent’s occupation on the death record
  • Establishes the conditions for remote execution of an advanced directive

The 2025 Edition has incorporated 2023 Wis. Act §§ 127, 129, and 130, concerning the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act, the Uniform Trust Decanting Act, classification of digital property, and remote witnessing and notarization of estate planning documents, into, among other sections, Wis. Stat. chs. 140, 154, 701, and 702. The cited provisions of those chapters are now fully up to date.

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