§ 15. Case Files

15. Case Files

The county clerk shall maintain a case file for each decedent's estate in which a probate proceeding has been filed. The case file must contain all orders, judgments, and proceedings of the court and any other probate filing with the court, including all:

(1) applications for the probate of wills and for the granting of administration;

(2) citations and notices, whether published or posted, with the returns thereon;

(3) wills and the testimony upon which the same are admitted to probate, provided that the substance only of depositions shall be recorded;

(4) bonds and official oaths;

(5) inventories, appraisements, and lists of claims;

(5-a) affidavits in lieu of inventories, appraisements, and lists of claims;

(6) exhibits and accounts;

(7) reports of hiring, renting, or sale;

(8) applications for sale or partition of real estate and reports of sale and of commissioners of partition;

(9) applications for authority to execute leases for mineral development, or for pooling or unitization of lands, royalty, or other interest in minerals, or to lend or invest money; and

(10) reports of lending or investing money.