Section 43-8-2 Construction of chapter; purposes and policies.
Section 43-8-2
Construction of chapter; purposes and policies.
(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are:
(1) To simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents;
(2) To discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in the distribution of his property.
(Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §1-102.)