(a) If an heir or devisee aliens the land before an action is brought or process sued out, the heir or devisee shall be answerable to any creditor of the decedent for the ancestor's debts to the value of the lands aliened.

(b) Within six (6) months from the death of any person, a mortgagee or purchaser for value from the heir or devisee of the decedent shall take subject to the right of any creditor of decedent whose debt is otherwise unsatisfied to subject the realty to the payment of the decedent's debts, as in this title provided. If administration has been granted on the estate of the decedent during the period of six (6) months, the rights of creditors whose claims are ultimately established in the administration as valid obligations of the estate shall constitute liens on the realty of the decedent, which realty may be subjected to these liens in the hands of the heir or the heir's alienees as in this title provided.

(c) After six (6) months have elapsed from the death of any person, and no personal representative has qualified to administer on the decedent's estate, a mortgagee or purchaser for value from the heir of the decedent shall take title free from the right of any nonlien creditor to subject the same to the payment of the decedent's debt, unless the mortgagee or purchaser takes with actual knowledge of the debt.

(d) After six (6) months have elapsed from the death of any person, a mortgagee or purchaser for value from the heir of the decedent shall take free from the title, right, or claims of all persons claiming under any unprobated will of the decedent, unless the mortgagee or purchaser for value has actual knowledge of the existence of the unprobated will.