Oklahoma § 58-719.1 - Service of notices on Governor and Attorney General

§ 58-719.1. Service of notices on Governor and Attorney General

In all proceedings for the administration of estates of deceased

persons, or for the probate, or interpretation, of wills of deceased

persons, in all courts of this state, wherein it appears from the

petition for admission of a will to probate, or from the petition or

other pleading asking for the interpretation of a last will and

testament, that the State of Oklahoma is named as a beneficiary in

such will, or wherein it appears from the petition for appointment

of administrator, or otherwise, that an intestate left no spouse or

kindred surviving, or that it is not known whether or not the

intestate left a spouse or kindred surviving or that the names and

whereabouts of the spouse or kindred, if any, of the intestate are

unknown, or wherein it otherwise appears that the State of Oklahoma

is, or may be, entitled to share in the distribution of the estate

of the decedent, any and all notices provided for by statute to be

served, personally, or by mail, upon persons or parties interested

in the estate shall be served upon the State of Oklahoma by mailing

true and correct copies of such notice, by registered mail, postage

prepaid, to the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, and to the

Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Capitol Building,

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and, where the jurisdiction of the court to

enter a judgment, order or decree in such cases depends upon the

giving of proper notice to all persons or parties interested in an

estate, such jurisdiction shall not vest in any such court, as to

the State of Oklahoma, unless and until the notice provided by law

has been given to the State of Oklahoma in the manner prescribed

herein. If the notice provided for herein be given in the manner

prescribed herein, the jurisdiction of the court, as to the State of

Oklahoma as a party entitled to share, or possibly entitled to

share, in the distribution of the estate of the decedent, shall be

the same as it is as to other persons or parties entitled to share,

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or possibly entitled to share, in the distribution of such estate,

when properly served with notice required by law.

Laws 1953, p. 249, § 1.