forth in her Will," Appel-lee's Br. p. 8, and, accordingly, must be honored. The virtue of the three-year statute of limitations on the presentment of wills is that "questions as to testacy may be eliminated simply by the running of time," thereby ensuring that property is freely alienable within a reasonable period. Uniform Probate Code § 3-101 (1998). Thus, at the end of the three-year period, the decedent's property may be distributed under the intestacy statutes without the worry of subsequent litigation raised by a late-discovered will. Moreover, the three-year statute of limitations allows interested parties to investigate whether the testator could have been incompetent when the will was executed or the subject of undue influence. Troxel v. Troxel, 737 N.E.2d 745, 748 (Ind.2000) (<HOLDING>). Here, no party is attempting to probate
holding a statute of limitations defense does not deprive court of subject matter jurisdiction to the extent the statute of limitations may be considered in any sense a jurisdictional impediment it is one which can be waived holding that the running of the statute of limitations is an affirmative defense holding that employer was estopped to assert a statute of limitations defense where the insurer had arranged to have the claimant examined by one of its physicians after the statute of limitations had run holding that the statute of limitations defense does not deprive court of subject matter jurisdiction to the extent the statute of limitations may be considered in any sense a jurisdictional impediment it is one which can be waived holding that one justification for a will statute of limitations is to accurately represent the wishes of the decedent