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Oregon keeps property out of probate with an ORS 93.948 transfer on death deed, survivorship title, POD accounts, beneficiary forms and a funded living trust.
An Oregon advance directive names a health care representative and gives instructions in one document. Sign it, then add two witnesses or a notary.
Oregon has no ancillary probate chapter. ORS 113.065 admits a will already probated elsewhere on certified copies, and venue follows the Oregon land.
Oregon bars an estate claim four months after the notice to interested persons is published, or 45 days after an individual notice, whichever falls later.
ORS 115.125 ranks an Oregon estate's expenses and claims in fourteen classes, and that order binds only when the assets cannot pay everything in full.
ORS chapter 119 is Oregon's digital assets law, effective January 1, 2017. An online tool outranks a will, and a custodian answers within 60 days.
Oregon estate planning runs on four documents. A power of attorney is durable the day you sign it, and a trust is revocable unless the terms say otherwise.
Oregon executor duties in statute order: qualify for letters, inform the heirs, publish once, file the 90-day inventory, pay claims, then account and close.
Oregon prints no family allowance figure. ORS 114.015 directs the probate court to order necessary and reasonable support for a spouse and dependent children.
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