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  • PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
    (Chapters 183 through 210)
  • TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
  • CHAPTER 197 PAYMENT OF DEBTS, LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES
  • Section 25A Lifetime gifts as satisfaction of legacy

[ Text of section effective until March 31, 2012. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 16. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44 as amended by 2010, 409, Sec. 23 and 2011, 224.]

  Section 25A. Property which a testator gives in his lifetime to a pecuniary legatee subsequent to the will providing for such pecuniary legacy, shall be treated to the extent of the gift as satisfaction of the pecuniary legacy in whole or in part only if the will so provides, or if the testator so declared in a contemporaneous writing, or if the legatee has acknowledged in writing that the gift was in satisfaction. For purposes of partial satisfaction, property given during a lifetime shall be valued as of the time the donee came into possession or enjoyment of the property or as of the time of death of the testator, whichever first occurred.