Section 5. Wills must be proved, and The district court in and for the county of proper venue has exclusive jurisdiction to prove a will or to grant letters testamentary or of administration granted in the following applicable situations. Proper venue for hearing in such actions shall be determined as follows:

1. In If the decedent died as a resident of this state, in the county of which the decedent was a resident at the time of his or her death, regardless of where he the decedent died.;

2. In If the decedent died while not a resident of this state:

4. In the county in which any part of the estate may be and the decedent was not a resident of this state, but or

Section 714. Proceedings for probate of wills of two or more deceased persons may be joined and united in one proceeding, and proceedings for administration of estates of two or more deceased persons who died intestate may be joined and united in one proceeding, and proceedings. Proceedings for probate of wills of one or more deceased persons and proceedings for the administration of estates of one or more deceased persons who died intestate may be joined and united in one proceeding, (a) where. Where the estate or estates left by one or more of such deceased persons or some part thereof left by one or more of such deceased persons, has been or is to be received from another of such deceased persons, immediately or remotely, either by will or intestate succession, and no probate or administration proceedings have been had or commenced upon the estate of any of such deceased persons, and/or (b) where two or more deceased persons died seized of undivided interests in property, real or personal, as tenants in common or otherwise, and no probate or administration proceedings have been had or commenced on the estate of either or any of them, and one or more of the heirs, devisees or legatees of such deceased persons are the same; and, the court may grant letters testamentary and/or letters of administration, as the case may be, upon such estates in any county where venue would be proper for any of the estates so joined and they may be administered in one proceeding; provided, that, in. In all cases herein mentioned the court granting such letters has jurisdiction of each of the proceedings so united. Notice required to be published by this title including but not limited to notice to determine heirs, notice to creditors, or notice of hearing on petition for final settlement, shall be published in the county where the action is pending and the county of the residence of each decedent if a resident of this state at death. Any such proceeding before the effective date of this act shall be deemed to be in compliance with applicable venue statutes.