2025 Session Last amended: 1994 session

§ 524.2-206 — Decedent's Nonprobate Transfers to Surviving Spouse

Plain-Language Summary

This section lists the deceased person's non-probate transfers (like joint accounts, life insurance, and trusts) that count toward the augmented estate.

524.2-206 1994 c 472 s 64

524.2-206 DECEDENT’S NONPROBATE TRANSFERS TO SURVIVING SPOUSE.

Excluding the homestead and property passing to the surviving spouse under the federal Social Security system, the value of the augmented estate includes the value of the decedent’s nonprobate transfers to the decedent’s spouse, which consists of all property that passed outside probate at the decedent’s death from the decedent to the surviving spouse by reason of the decedent’s death that would have been included in the augmented estate under section 524.2-205, paragraph (1) or (2), had the property passed to or for the benefit of a person other than the decedent’s spouse, the decedent, or the decedent’s creditors, estate, or estate creditors.

History:

1994 c 472 s 20

History: History:

  1994 c 472 s 20

Practical Notes

Assets the deceased transferred outside of probate (such as payable-on-death accounts, joint tenancy property, and revocable trusts) are counted when calculating what the surviving spouse is entitled to receive.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes