Wisconsin Code § 851.70

Presumption in favor of orders
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When the validity of any order or judgment of a circuit court in a probate proceeding or certificate to terminate a life estate or joint tenancy in
a death tax proceeding is drawn in question in another action or
proceeding, everything necessary to have been done or proved to
render the order, judgment or certificate valid and which might
have been proved by parole evidence at the time of making the order or judgment and was not required to be recorded shall, after
20 years from that time, be presumed to have been done or proved
unless the contrary appears on the same record.

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