After filing of inventory, court to set apart exempt personal property and homestead. Upon the filing of the inventory or at any time thereafter during the administration of the estate, the court, on its own motion or upon petition by an interested person, shall set apart for the use of the family of the decedent all of the personal property which is exempt by law from execution, and shall set apart the homestead, as designated by the general homestead law then in force, whether the homestead has theretofore previously been selected as required by law or not, and the property thus set apart is not subject to administration.
Last modified: February 25, 2006