2025 Regular SessionKentucky Legislature

SB70: AN ACT relating to heirs property.

Legislative Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to issue grants from the fund; amend KRS 64.012 to increase the recording and indexing fee collected by county clerks by $1 and to direct those additional fees to the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 381.135 and 389A.030 to conform.

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Bill History

1/9/2025
introduced in Senate
Senate
1/9/2025
to Committee on Committees (S)
Senate
2/4/2025
to Judiciary (S)
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/9/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Judiciary(Senate)

Sponsors

Democrat: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/1/1970111.6 KB
Local Mandate
Local Mandate1/1/19703.1 KB