SLR 5-9.021: PROBATE FILINGS

(1) All Petitioners in estate proceedings shall state their full legal name in the Petition. (2) Petitions to open estate proceedings must clarify the relation of each heir to the deceased following consanguinity and passage by representation as described in ORS 112.045 and ORS 112.065, to enable the court to confirm that distribution of estate assets is just and proper. (3) Petitions to open estate proceedings that include requests to waive bonds shall clearly explain the reason waiver is just and proper in light of all known assets and creditors and shall be supported by contemporaneously filing consents from all known heirs and devisees. (4) Petitions to open estate proceedings shall disclose whether any devisee’s bequest will fail, and the reasons that the failure is inevitable.