[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR17.3]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 17_ACTION ON WILLS OF OSAGE INDIANS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 17.3  Pleadings, notice and hearings.

    (a) The petition for approval of the will of a deceased Osage Indian 
may be set down for hearing at a date not less than 30 days from the 
date the petition is filed. Hearings shall be conducted only after 
notice of the time and place of such hearings shall have been given by 
mail. The notice shall be mailed not less than 10 days preceding the 
date of the hearing and shall state that the special attorney will, at 
the time and place specified therein, take testimony to determine 
whether the will of the deceased Osage Indian shall be approved or 
disapproved. The notice shall list the presumptive heirs of the decedent 
and the beneficiaries under such will, and shall notify the attesting 
witnesses to be present and testify. It shall state that all persons 
interested in the estate of the decedent may be present at the hearing. 
The notice shall

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further state that the special attorney may, in his discretion, continue 
the hearing to another time or place to be announced at the original 
hearing.
    (b) Any interested party desiring to contest approval of the will 
may, not less than 5 days before the date set for hearing, file written 
objections in triplicate, showing that a copy thereof was served upon 
attorneys for the proponent and other attorneys of record in the case. 
Such contestant shall clearly state the interest he takes under the will 
and, if a presumptive heir, the interest he would take under the 
Oklahoma law. The contestant shall further state specifically the ground 
on which his contest is based.