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15-1-102 PURPOSES -- RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT

PART 1.

SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-1-102. Purposes -- Rule of construction. (a) This code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this code are:

(1) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;

(2) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of his property;

(3) to promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to his successors;

(4) to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts;

(5) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.