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  2. Probate court - Wikipedia

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    The probate court will then oversee the process of distributing the deceased's assets to the proper beneficiaries. A probate court can be petitioned by interested parties in an estate, such as when a beneficiary feels that an estate is being mishandled. The court has the authority to compel an executor to give an account of their actions.

  3. George Washington family secrets revealed by DNA from ...

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    The living descendant, Samuel Walter Washington, who is the current owner of Harewood estate, turned out to have more DNA in common with the two deceased brothers than the researchers expected.

  4. Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    FISA has approximately 700 individual members, who collectively manage assets in excess of R250 billion. They draft tens of thousand wills each year and administer around 50 percent of deceased estates reported to the offices of the Master of the High Court in South Africa. FISA also offers candidate membership for those wishing to enter the ...

  5. Claymont Court - Wikipedia

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    Claymont Court, or simply Claymont, is a Georgian-style brick mansion, the grandest of several built near Charles Town, West Virginia for members of the Washington family. . The current "Big House" was built in 1840 for Bushrod Corbin Washington, nephew of Supreme Court justice Bushrod Washington and grand-nephew of George Washington, to replace the 1820 main house on his plantation that ...

  6. Estate Orpen v Estate Atkinson - Wikipedia

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    The legal question was whether the exercise of Mrs. Orpen's power of appointment in favour of Mr. Orpen, in terms of her father's will, was valid, and whether her spouse's deceased estate had obtained vested rights with regard to the twenty per cent trust capital that she bequeathed to him, regardless of the fact that she died before her father ...

  7. Harewood (West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving Washington family house in Jefferson County also is the only one still owned by members of the extended Washington family. [7] Modern archeological excavations of a graveyard at Harewood noted that some remains were moved to the graveyard of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town in 1882, and have identified the remains of Lucy Payne (wife of George Steptoe Washington) and ...

  8. Estate sale - Wikipedia

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    The most common reasons for an estate sale is the death of the property owner, [2] and the consequent need to quickly liquidate the deceased's belongings for any number of reasons: The survivors/heirs may have no interest in the bulk of the personal belongings left by the deceased; The survivors/heirs may simply lack space to keep the belongings

  9. W. H. Bickel Estate - Wikipedia

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    The W.H. Bickel Estate is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone mansion built between 1928 and 1930 on the outskirts of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The 1,800-square-foot (170 m 2 ) building has a rectangular main section and a wing to the East.