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Committee backs bill to move certain water-share transfers into probate process
Summary
Lawmakers advanced House Bill 89, which would require transfers of inherited water shares that would otherwise use a simplified affidavit process (below a $100,000 threshold) to proceed through probate or trust administration to reduce alleged abuses.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Senate Natural Resources committee favorably recommended House Bill 89 (substitute) to the full Senate, a bill changing how ownership of mutual irrigation company water shares can be transferred after death.
Representative Sawyer told the committee current statute allows an owner to use a sworn affidavit to transfer water shares valued at less than $100,000 without probate oversight.…
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