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K.S.A. 59-1301 pays an appropriate funeral first when a Kansas estate falls short, and the Medicaid claim ranks with it. Here are the four classes.

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Kansas ranks estate debts only when the money runs short. K.S.A. 59-1301 opens on that condition: if the applicable assets of an estate are insufficient to pay in full all demands allowed against it, payment follows a classified order. An appropriate funeral expense comes first, and following that allowance, any claim for medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709. Administration costs come second.

That top of the list is where content copied from another state goes wrong. The Uniform Probate Code sequence most national pages follow opens with the costs of administration, and Kansas does not. A Kansas funeral bill outranks the probate lawyer, the appraiser and the executor's own compensation, and the state's Medicaid claim sits in the same first class instead of down among the general demands. Every section quoted here was read on September 8, 2026 at the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes, then looked up in the Kansas Secretary of State's 2024, 2025 and 2026 amended and repealed indexes, because a second copy of the same statute site cannot tell you whether the text has gone stale. Kansas probate is heard in the district court of a county, and the Kansas district court directory says which one holds the file. This page is general information about Kansas law rather than advice about one estate, and a short estate is where a licensed Kansas attorney earns the fee.

ClassWhat K.S.A. 59-1301 puts in it
FirstThe expenses of an appropriate funeral, in such amount as was reasonably necessary, having due regard to the assets of the estate available for the payment of demands and to the rights of other creditors. Following the allowance of such expenses, any claim for medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709
SecondThe appropriate and necessary costs and expenses of administration, and the reasonable sums for the appropriate and necessary expenses of the last sickness of decedent, including wages of servants
ThirdJudgments rendered against decedent in the decedent's lifetime. All judgments or liens upon the property of the decedent are paid in the order of their priority
FourthAll other demands duly proved, including the cost of any appropriate tombstone or marker or the lettering on it. Debts having preference by the laws of the United States, and demands having preference by the laws of Kansas, are paid according to that preference

Section 59-1301 has read this way since L. 2015, ch. 42, § 14. Every section this page cites was then looked up in the Kansas Secretary of State's amended and repealed statute indexes for 2024, 2025 and 2026, and two of them appear there. K.S.A. 59-709, the notice-to-creditors section, was amended in 2024, and the revisor's posted text already carries that change as L. 2024, ch. 35, § 1. K.S.A. 39-709 was amended in 2026 by chapter 151, substitute for House Bill No. 2731, and the revisor's posted history for that section still ends at L. 2025, ch. 26, § 1. Reading the 2026 act settled it: chapter 151 rewrites the public-assistance eligibility and work-requirement subsections and leaves subsection (k), the estate-recovery subsection this page relies on, word for word as the revisor prints it. K.S.A. 59-1301 itself appears in none of the three indexes.

The First Class Holds Two Tenants and Ranks Them

Read the first class slowly, because it does two jobs in one sentence. It caps the funeral, then it seats a second creditor behind that cap.

The cap is written into the class itself. The funeral is allowed "in such amount as was reasonably necessary, having due regard to the assets of the estate available for the payment of demands and to the rights of other creditors." A modest estate and a large invoice produce a first-class allowance smaller than the invoice. The statute says where the rest goes: "Any part of the funeral expenses allowed as a demand against the estate in excess of the sum ascertained as above shall be paid as other demands of the fourth class." One funeral bill can sit in two classes at once, most of it first and the balance last.

The Medicaid claim comes next, inside the same class. K.S.A. 59-1301 seats "any claim for medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709" in the first class "following the allowance of such expenses." The word "following" is doing real work, and the closing paragraph of the section confirms it. Kansas forbids preference between demands of the same class "except as provided by this section for the first class of demands." The first class is the one place the code sets an internal order, and the funeral is ahead.

That rank tells you where the claim sits. It does not tell you whether the state may collect yet. Those are two questions, they have different answers on a common set of facts, and the section below is where they come apart.

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A First-Class Medicaid Claim Can Still Be Barred Today

K.S.A. 39-709(k)(2) makes the amount of medical assistance paid after June 30, 1992 under subsection (i) a claim against the property of a deceased recipient's estate, and if there is no estate, it charges the estate of the surviving spouse. It then holds the state off in the same paragraph: "There shall be no recovery of medical assistance correctly paid to or on behalf of an individual under subsection (i) except after the death of the surviving spouse of the individual, if any, and only at a time when the individual has no surviving child who is under 21 years of age or is blind or permanently and totally disabled."

So a Kansas estate opened while the surviving spouse is alive faces a first-class claim the state cannot recover on at that time, and the same is true while a surviving child under 21, or a blind or permanently and totally disabled child of any age, is living. Read the rank and the bar together. A page that reports only the rank tells a widow her husband's nursing bill outranks the hospital and the lawyer, which inverts the outcome the section produces on those facts.

Four more things 39-709(k) settles that change the arithmetic:

  • The reach is wider than the probate estate. Under (k)(3)(B), assistance paid on or after July 1, 2004 is a claim against the "medical assistance estate", defined as all real and personal property in which the deceased individual had any legal title or interest immediately before or at death. It "includes without limitation" assets conveyed to a survivor, heir or assign through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, transfer-on-death deed, payable-on-death contract, life estate, trust, annuities or a similar arrangement. Assistance paid before July 1, 2004 reaches only the probatable estate under (k)(3)(A).
  • Long-term care insurance is a credit. The monetary value of benefits the recipient received under long-term care insurance, as defined by K.S.A. 40-2227, is a credit against the amount of the claim.
  • The state chooses its cases. The secretary of health and environment "shall not be required to pursue every claim, but is granted discretion to determine which claims to pursue."
  • There is a separate lien track. Under (k)(4), a lien on the recipient's real property must be filed with the register of deeds of the county where the property sits within one year of the death. Under (k)(6) it survives a later transfer of title until it is satisfied, until a prior lien is foreclosed, or until the lien consumes the value of the property.

The paperwork closes the loop at the end of the case. K.S.A. 59-2247(a)(5) requires the final settlement petition to state that neither the decedent nor a predeceased spouse was paid medical assistance under K.S.A. 39-709, or, if either was, that the paying state was notified of the filing as K.S.A. 59-2222 requires. An executor cannot close a Kansas estate without answering the Medicaid question on the record.

Inside a Class, Kansas Forbids Preference

The closing paragraph of 59-1301 is short and it settles two arguments. "Except as provided by this section for the first class of demands, no preference shall be given in the payment of any demand over any other demand of the same class, nor shall a demand due and payable be entitled to preference over demands not due."

So a creditor who files first, shouts loudest or holds the oldest invoice gains nothing over a creditor in the same class. And a debt that has already matured gains nothing over one that has not, which stops an executor from clearing the bills currently on the desk while a larger obligation of the same class waits on a future maturity date.

Notice what the section does not print. Kansas states the ranking and bans preference within a class. It does not spell out a formula for splitting a class that cannot be paid in full, the way some state codes print an explicit pro rata rule. Where a Kansas class runs short, the shape of the split is a question for the district court on the accounting and for a Kansas attorney, not something this page can read off the statute.

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The Homestead and the Allowances Never Enter the Classes

Four sections say the same thing from four directions, which is how you can tell it is the settled answer.

K.S.A. 59-401 exempts the homestead: 160 acres outside an incorporated city, or one acre inside one, or a manufactured or mobile home, occupied by the decedent and family at the owner's death as a residence and still occupied by the surviving spouse and children afterward. It is "wholly exempt from distribution under any of the laws of this state, and from the payment of the debts of the decedent." Four carve-outs survive: sale for taxes, obligations contracted for the purchase of the homestead, obligations for the erection of improvements on it, and any lien given on it by the joint consent of husband and wife. A recorded mortgage both spouses signed reaches the house. A credit card balance does not.

K.S.A. 59-403 gives the surviving spouse, for the benefit of that spouse and the decedent's minor children during their minority, the wearing apparel, family library, pictures, musical instruments, furniture and household goods, utensils and implements used in the home, one automobile, and provisions and fuel on hand necessary for one year of support. Subsection (b) adds the money allowance covered below. The section then closes the door: "The property shall not be liable for the payment of any of decedent's debts or other demands against the decedent's estate, except liens thereon existing at the time of the decedent's death."

K.S.A. 59-1401(a) keeps both out of the executor's hands. The executor has a right to possession of all the property of a resident decedent "except the homestead and allowances to the surviving spouse and minor children."

K.S.A. 59-2235 handles the paperwork. After the inventory and valuation are filed, the surviving spouse, or the children where there is no spouse, may petition the court to set apart the homestead and the 59-403 personal property. Property set apart "shall not be treated as assets" in the executor's custody, though the title to the homestead is still included in the final decree of distribution.

K.S.A. 59-1405 then states the boundary from the estate's side. "The property of a decedent, except as provided in K.S.A. 59-401 and 59-403, shall be liable for the payment of the decedent's debts and other lawful demands against the estate." What the family takes is outside the queue rather than at the top of it. The wider set of spousal claims is the subject of the Kansas surviving spouse rights guide.

The $75,000 Allowance Is a Ceiling the Court Sets

K.S.A. 59-403(b) allows "a reasonable allowance of not more than $75,000 in money or other personal or real property at its appraised value in full or part payment thereof, with the exact amount of such allowance to be determined and ordered by the court, after taking into account the condition of the estate of the decedent."

Three things follow, and they matter more on a short estate than anywhere else. The figure is the maximum the court may order, so a Kansas surviving spouse is not entitled to $75,000 by operation of law. The allowance can be satisfied in property at appraised value rather than in cash, so the house, the vehicle or an account can be counted toward it. And the express test the court applies is the condition of the estate of the decedent, which is the one fact an insolvent estate has in abundance.

The figure moved from $50,000 to $75,000 by 2023 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 77, § 1 (HB 2130), approved April 24, 2023. Section 17 of that act sets its own commencement, and the words are worth reading rather than rounding off: the act "shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book." The revisor's history line for 59-403 prints July 1 for that publication.

The act carries exactly one transition clause and it belongs to a different section. Section 15, amending the transfer-on-death deed statute, says its amendments "shall apply to deeds filed of record on or after July 1, 2023." Nothing in the act ties the allowance figure to a date of death. Read against the opening words of 59-403, which speak of what a surviving spouse is allowed "when a resident of the state dies," the amount that applies is the one in force at the date of death. Treat that as a reading of the section rather than as a rule the act states, and confirm the band with the district court or a Kansas attorney before relying on it.

Nothing Gets Paid for Four Months

K.S.A. 59-1302 holds the executor back before the classification ever matters. If the executor or administrator, within four months after having given notice of appointment, does not have notice of demands against the estate that would authorize representing it insolvent, the executor may proceed after those four months to pay the debts "according to their classification." Payment before the four months are up takes a court order, and the court "may require bond or security to be given by the creditor to refund any part of such payment necessary to make payment in accordance with this section after the expiration of the period of four months."

Two clocks run near each other and they are counted from different events. The 59-1302 wait runs from the notice of appointment the personal representative gives. The creditor's own deadline in K.S.A. 59-2239(1) runs from the first published notice to creditors, or from actual notice to a known creditor, whichever produces the later date. Kansas combines the notice to creditors with the probate or administration notice under K.S.A. 59-2236(a), and K.S.A. 59-709(a) requires publication within 30 days of the filing, once a week for three consecutive weeks. How a demand gets exhibited and when it is barred belongs to the Kansas creditor claims guide, and this page picks up after a demand has been allowed.

The condition inside 59-1302 is the sentence to sit with. An executor who does have notice of demands large enough to represent the estate insolvent does not get the free hand the section otherwise grants after four months. That is the moment to stop writing checks and call counsel.

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Secured Creditors Surrender the Security or Exhaust It

K.S.A. 59-1303 is two lines long and it decides the whole question. When a claimant holds any security for the demand, the demand "may be allowed, conditioned upon the claimant surrendering the security or upon the claimant exhausting the security; it shall be allowed for the full amount found to be due if the security has been surrendered, or for any remaining amount found to be due if the security has been exhausted."

The condition attaches to the allowance itself. A lender cannot hold the collateral and also collect the full balance from the general pot. Surrender the collateral and the whole debt is allowed. Exhaust the collateral and only the shortfall is allowed, which then takes its place with the other demands.

K.S.A. 59-1304 covers the other direction. Where estate assets are encumbered by mortgage, pledge or otherwise, the executor may pay the encumbrance or part of it, even if the holder never exhibited a demand, if it appears to be for the best interest of the estate and the court has so ordered. The section adds a rule that stops the payment from becoming a gift: no such payment increases the share of the devisee, legatee or heir entitled to receive the encumbered asset, unless the will says otherwise.

The Fourth Class Has a Trapdoor in It

The fourth class is where the general creditors sit, and it ends with a clause that lets some of them out. Demands are paid there "except that debts having preference by the laws of the United States and demands having preference by the laws of this state shall be paid according to such preference."

It also carries a timing rule that catches executors. A tombstone or marker is payable in this class, "but whether there shall be an allowance, and if so the amount thereof, shall be determined by the court before any obligation therefor is incurred." An executor who orders the stone and then asks the court about it has done the two steps backwards. The same class absorbs any part of the funeral bill the court declines to allow in the first class.

The federal half has its own statute and its own teeth. Under 31 U.S.C. 3713(a)(1)(B), a claim of the United States Government "shall be paid first" when the estate of a deceased debtor in the custody of the executor or administrator is not enough to pay all the debts of the debtor. Subsection (b) then makes a representative who pays any part of a debt of the estate before paying a claim of the Government "liable to the extent of the payment for unpaid claims of the Government."

That is a second liability rule, running on federal terms, aimed at the same person the Kansas accounting already scrutinizes. Where a short Kansas estate owes federal tax or another federal debt, how 31 U.S.C. 3713 interacts with the four classes is a question to put to a Kansas attorney before any money leaves the account.

Demands Not Yet Due, and Demands Nobody Can Price

Two sections handle the claim that will not sit still long enough to be paid.

K.S.A. 59-2240 covers the demand payable at a future day. The court may allow it at its present value, or order the executor to retain enough funds to satisfy it at maturity, or, where the heirs, devisees or legatees offer to give bond to the creditor for payment on the original terms, order that bond given in satisfaction of the demand.

K.S.A. 59-2241 covers the contingent one. Contingent claims are heard and determined "in accordance with the rights of the parties respecting such claims and in such manner as not to delay the closing of the estate, if that can be done with justice to the parties." The court is told to resolve the contingency without holding the estate open, and told at the same time not to do that at the parties' expense.

Neither section lets an unmatured demand slip in the ranking. That is the second half of the closing paragraph of 59-1301: a demand due and payable gets no preference over demands not due.

What Happens When an Executor Pays Out of Order

The consequence lands at the accounting rather than as an automatic judgment in the creditor's favor, and four sections carry it.

  1. The account has to be right before it is allowed. K.S.A. 59-1502 requires a verified account of administration. K.S.A. 59-2249(a) lets the district court settle and allow the account if it is correct, and says that if the account is incorrect, "it shall be corrected and then settled and allowed." K.S.A. 59-2247(a) sets out what the final settlement petition has to contain.
  2. The small-demand shortcut carries the risk with it. K.S.A. 59-2237(c) lets the executor pay any timely filed demand of $10,000 or less, duly itemized and verified, without a petition, notice of hearing or court allowance. The executor's own demand is excluded. If an interested party files a written defense at final settlement, "the burden of proof shall be upon the executor or administrator to establish that the demand was due and owing by the estate," and any part the court disallows is not allowed in the accounting either.
  3. The court can remove the fiduciary and take the fee. K.S.A. 59-1711: whenever a fiduciary fails or refuses to perform any duty imposed by law or by a lawful order of the court, that fiduciary "may be removed and his or her compensation may be reduced or forfeited, in the discretion of the court." The compensation at stake is the just and reasonable amount K.S.A. 59-1717 would otherwise allow for the fiduciary's services and those of the fiduciary's attorneys.
  4. Money already distributed can be called back. K.S.A. 59-1408: if after the payment of legacies or distribution it becomes necessary that any part be refunded for the payment of debts, the amount is apportioned among the legatees and distributees according to their liability under K.S.A. 59-1405.

The duty side of this sits with the Kansas executor duties guide. The point for a short estate is that the executor's own second-class compensation is the item most exposed when the order goes wrong.

Which Property Gets Sold Is a Separate Ladder

Ranking creditors and ranking beneficiaries are different jobs, and running them together is a common error. K.S.A. 59-1301 decides who gets paid. K.S.A. 59-1405 decides which property is sold to pay them.

Where a will designates property to be appropriated for the payment of debts, that property is applied first. Otherwise, and unless the will provides another route or the court determines otherwise under K.S.A. 59-1410, the order is: personal property not disposed of by will, then real estate not disposed of by will, then personal property bequeathed to the residuary legatee, then real estate devised to the residuary devisee, then property not specifically bequeathed or devised, then property specifically bequeathed or devised. Each class is exhausted before the next is touched, and everything within a class contributes ratably.

Demonstrative legacies are classed as specific to the extent the named fund pays them, and as general to the extent the fund falls short. K.S.A. 59-1406 lets specifically bequeathed property go to the legatee early only on security for its redelivery or its appraised value, if the court so orders.

An estate deep enough to pay every allowed demand never reaches 59-1301 at all, and works entirely inside 59-1405. An estate that cannot pay reaches both.

A Worked Example

The estate below is invented. It exists to show how the sections interact, not to predict the result in any real one.

Take a Kansas decedent who died leaving a surviving spouse, no minor children, a house occupied as the family homestead, a $40,000 bank account, household furniture and a car. The bills are an $11,000 funeral, $9,000 of administration costs including the attorney and the executor's compensation, a $26,000 hospital bill from the last illness, a $34,000 Medicaid recovery claim for nursing care paid under K.S.A. 39-709, and $12,000 of credit card balances.

The homestead is outside the whole exercise under K.S.A. 59-401 while the spouse continues to occupy it, subject to taxes, purchase money, improvement obligations and any lien both spouses signed. The furniture, the car and a year of provisions go to the spouse under K.S.A. 59-403(a) and are not liable for the debts except liens that already existed at the death. The court sets the 59-403(b) money allowance after weighing the condition of the estate, and on these numbers that award is unlikely to approach the $75,000 ceiling.

What is left is the $40,000 account. K.S.A. 59-1302 keeps it where it is for four months after the notice of appointment. The funeral is first class, and the court fixes the allowance at the amount reasonably necessary having regard to the available assets and the rights of other creditors, so the full $11,000 may or may not be allowed there. Any excess drops to the fourth class.

Now the surviving spouse changes the answer, and this is the step most content skips. The Medicaid claim ranks in the first class behind the funeral, but K.S.A. 39-709(k)(2) allows no recovery of correctly paid assistance until after the surviving spouse's death. On these facts the state's $34,000 does not take the account. Roughly $29,000 remains for the second class, where the $9,000 of administration costs and the $26,000 hospital bill together come to $35,000, so that class is short and the fourth-class credit cards collect nothing. K.S.A. 59-1301 bans preference inside the second class, and the shape of the split between the administration costs and the hospital is the district court's call on the accounting.

Take the spouse out and the outcome flips. A decedent with no surviving spouse and no child under 21 or disabled child faces no bar under 39-709(k)(2). The $34,000 claim then exceeds the roughly $29,000 left after the funeral, the first class absorbs the account, and the second and fourth classes get nothing. The executor's own compensation under K.S.A. 59-1717 goes unpaid alongside the attorney's fee, which is the fact that most often changes how a Kansas executor thinks about accepting a short estate.

Change one fact and the answer moves. Give the same decedent a rental house worth $150,000 with no homestead claim on it, and K.S.A. 59-1405 makes it liable like everything else, so a sale pays every class in full and 59-1301 never ranks anything. Put a $160,000 mortgage on that rental instead, and K.S.A. 59-1303 makes the lender choose: surrender the security and have the whole debt allowed, or exhaust it and have only the shortfall allowed.

When to Call a Kansas Attorney

Bring in a licensed Kansas probate attorney when:

  • the allowed demands look likely to exceed the assets, so 59-1301 decides who goes unpaid
  • the decedent or a predeceased spouse received medical assistance under K.S.A. 39-709, because the claim sits in the first class, the reachable estate under 39-709(k)(3)(B) is wider than the probate estate, and the 39-709(k)(2) bar for a surviving spouse or a young or disabled child decides whether the state can collect at all right now
  • a class cannot be paid in full and the split has to be worked out, since 59-1301 bans preference inside a class without printing a formula
  • a federal tax or other federal debt is in the mix, because 31 U.S.C. 3713 adds its own priority and its own liability
  • a class boundary is arguable, such as whether a bill belongs to the expenses of the last sickness or to ordinary care years earlier
  • a secured creditor and the estate disagree about surrendering or exhausting the collateral under 59-1303
  • you have already paid a demand and now suspect a higher class will go short, because the accounting under 59-2249 and the removal power in 59-1711 both point back at the executor

Frequently Asked Questions

What order does Kansas pay estate debts in?

K.S.A. 59-1301 sets four classes, and it applies only when the applicable assets of an estate are insufficient to pay in full all demands allowed against it. First class, the expenses of an appropriate funeral in such amount as was reasonably necessary, and following the allowance of such expenses, any claim for medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709. Second class, the appropriate and necessary costs and expenses of administration and the reasonable sums for the appropriate and necessary expenses of the last sickness of decedent, including wages of servants. Third class, judgments rendered against the decedent in the decedent's lifetime, with all judgments or liens upon the decedent's property paid in the order of their priority. Fourth class, all other demands duly proved.

Does Kansas pay administration costs before the funeral?

No. The funeral is the first class in K.S.A. 59-1301 and administration costs are the second, alongside the expenses of the last sickness. The Uniform Probate Code order that most national content follows opens with the costs of administration, so a Kansas page built from another state's template usually has the top of the list upside down. The Kansas executor's own compensation under K.S.A. 59-1717 rides in that second class with the lawyer and the appraiser.

Where does a Kansas Medicaid estate recovery claim rank?

In the first class, immediately behind the funeral, which puts it ahead of administration costs, ahead of the last-sickness bill and ahead of every judgment. Rank is only half the answer. K.S.A. 39-709(k)(2) makes the amount paid a claim against the deceased recipient's estate and then bars recovery of correctly paid assistance until after the death of the surviving spouse, and only when there is no surviving child under 21 or blind or permanently and totally disabled. So a first-class Medicaid claim can be unrecoverable on the day the estate is administered. K.S.A. 39-709(k)(3)(B) makes the reach wider than probate for assistance paid on or after July 1, 2004, covering the medical assistance estate and including without limitation joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, transfer-on-death deed, payable-on-death contract, life estate, trust and annuities.

What leaves a Kansas estate before any class is paid?

The homestead and the K.S.A. 59-403 allowances. K.S.A. 59-401 makes the homestead wholly exempt from distribution and from the payment of the decedent's debts, subject to taxes, purchase-money obligations, obligations for improvements and liens given by joint consent. K.S.A. 59-403 gives the surviving spouse listed household property, one automobile and a year of provisions, plus a reasonable allowance of not more than $75,000 set by the court, and says that property is not liable for the decedent's debts except liens existing at the death. K.S.A. 59-1401(a) keeps both out of the executor's right to possession, and K.S.A. 59-1405 excepts both from the property liable for debts.

Is the Kansas family allowance always $75,000?

No. K.S.A. 59-403(b) allows a reasonable allowance of not more than $75,000 in money or other personal or real property at its appraised value, with the exact amount to be determined and ordered by the court after taking into account the condition of the estate of the decedent. The figure is a ceiling on what the court may order, not a sum the surviving spouse receives. On a short estate the condition of the estate is the express thing the court weighs, so the award can land well below the cap.

How soon can a Kansas executor start paying debts?

Four months after giving notice of appointment, under K.S.A. 59-1302, and only if the executor does not have notice of demands within those four months that would authorize representing the estate insolvent. Earlier payment needs a court order, and the court may require the creditor to post bond or security to refund any part that has to come back so payment can follow the classification. The creditor's own deadline is a separate clock in K.S.A. 59-2239.

What happens if a Kansas executor pays a lower class first?

It surfaces at the accounting rather than as an automatic personal judgment. K.S.A. 59-1502 requires a verified account, and K.S.A. 59-2249(a) lets the court settle and allow the account only if it is correct, and correct it first if it is not. K.S.A. 59-2237(c) shifts the burden onto the executor for any demand of $10,000 or less paid without a court allowance, and disallows the accounting as to any part the court rejects. K.S.A. 59-1711 lets the court remove a fiduciary who fails to perform a duty imposed by law and reduce or forfeit that fiduciary's compensation. Where a federal debt goes unpaid, 31 U.S.C. 3713(b) adds personal liability on federal terms.

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