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2. Letters of Administration - Wikipedia

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   Traditionally, letters of administration granted to a representative of a testator's estate are called "letters of administration with the will annexed" or "letters of administration cum testamento annexo" or "c.t.a.". Essentially, this document is issued to the person who will administer the estate of someone who dies without a will.

3. Joint wills and mutual wills - Wikipedia

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   The agreement must be made in a particular form. The agreement must be contractual in effect. (Contrast Goodchild v Goodchild [1997] 1 WLR 1216. [2] and Lewis v Cotton [2001] 2 NZLR [3]) The agreement must be intended to be irrevocable. The surviving party must have intended the will to reflect the agreement.

4. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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   The net estate is inclusive of property that passed by the laws of intestacy, testamentary property, and testamentary substitutes, as enumerated in EPTL 5-1.1-A. New York's classification of testamentary substitutes that are included in the net estate make it challenging for a deceased spouse to disinherit their surviving spouse.

5. Attestation clause - Wikipedia

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   The validity and form of an attestation clause is usually a matter of U.S. state law, and will vary from state to state. Many states allow attestation clauses to be added as codicils to wills that were originally drafted without them.

6. Personal representative - Wikipedia

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   In common law jurisdictions, a personal representative or legal personal representative is a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of another person. If the estate being administered is that of a deceased person, the personal representative is either an executor if the deceased person left a will or an administrator of an intestate estate. [1]

7. Administration (probate law) - Wikipedia

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   The court does this by granting letters of administration to the person so entitled. Grants of administration may be either general (where the deceased has died intestate) or limited. [1] The order in which the court will make general grants of letters follows the sequence: The surviving spouse, or civil partner, as the case may be; The next of ...