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                                 ARTICLE 13
 
                     OTHER PROVISIONS AFFECTING ESTATES
 
                     PART 1. ASSETS OF DECEDENT'S ESTATE
 
  Section 13-1.1 Certain assets considered personal property.
          13-1.2 Assets;  debt  due  from  executor to testator; effect of
                   discharge by will.
          13-1.3 Assets chargeable with  payment  of  estate  obligations;
                   order in which assets appropriated; abatement.
          13-1.4 Action  in  supreme  court  to  compromise  controversies
                   between claimants to estate assets.
 
                   PART 2. STATUTE OF FRAUDS REQUIREMENTS
 
  Section 13-2.1 Agreements involving a contract to establish a trust,  to
                   make  a  testamentary  provision  of any kind, and by a
                   personal representative  to  answer  for  the  debt  or
                   default of a decedent, required to be in writing.
          13-2.2 Transfers and mortgages of interest in decedents' estates
                   required to be in writing and recorded.
          13-2.3 Powers  of  attorney  in  relation  to decedents' estates
                   required to be in writing and recorded.
 
                      PART 3. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
  Section 13-3.1 Rights  of  payees  in  non-transferable  United   States
                   savings bonds.
          13-3.2 Rights  of  beneficiaries  of  pension, retirement, death
                   benefit, stock bonus and profit-sharing plans,  systems
                   or   trusts  and  of  beneficiaries  of  annuities  and
                   supplemental insurance contracts.
          13-3.3 Designation of trustee to  receive  proceeds  of  thrift,
                   savings,  pension,  retirement,  death  benefit,  stock
                   bonus and profit-sharing plans, systems or  trusts,  of
                   life,  group  life,  industrial  life  or  accident and
                   health insurance policies and of annuity, endowment and
                   supplemental insurance contracts, and taxation thereof
          13-3.4 Payment or delivery of property to foreign fiduciaries.
          13-3.5 Action or proceeding by foreign personal or  other  legal
                   representative.
          13-3.6 Disaffirmance    of    fraudulent    acts   by   personal
                   representative and others.
 
                       PART 4. TRANSFER-ON-DEATH SECURITY REGISTRATION
  Section 13-4.1  Definitions
          13-4.2  Registration in beneficiary form; sole or joint  tenancy
                    ownership
          13-4.3  Applicable law
          13-4.4  Origination of registration in beneficiary form
          13-4.5  Form of registration in beneficiary form
          13-4.6  Effect of registration in beneficiary form
          13-4.7  Ownership on death of owner
          13-4.8  Protection of registering entity
          13-4.9  Nontestamentary transfer on death
          13-4.10 Terms, conditions, and forms
          13-4.11 Rules of construction
          13-4.12 Application