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2. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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   Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers: Intestate succession of property; procedures for making, interpretation, and revocation of wills (includes Statutory rule against perpetuities and Uniform Simultaneous Death Act) 3 Probate of Wills and Administration: Procedural rules for the probate process 4

3. Probate court - Wikipedia

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   A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.

4. Attestation clause - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, attestation clauses were formally introduced into probate law with the promulgation of the first version of the Model Probate Code in the 1940s. Statutes that authorize self-proved wills typically provide that a will that contains this language will be admitted to probate without affidavits from the attesting witnesses. [2]

5. Advancement (inheritance) - Wikipedia

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   Advancement is a common law doctrine of intestate succession that presumes that gifts given to a person's heir during that person's life are intended as an advance on what that heir would inherit upon the death of the parent. Not to be confused with an advance of someone's expected distribution from an estate currently in probate.

6. Lapse and anti-lapse - Wikipedia

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   In jurisdictions which have adopted the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, or the 1991 version of the Uniform Probate Code (but not the previous Uniform Probate Code), any devisee who dies within 120 hours after the testator is legally considered to have died before the testator. In such jurisdictions, only a devisee who survives more than 120 ...

7. What happens to your investment accounts after you die? - AOL

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   Full common law states. ... • Georgia (ended in 1997) • Idaho (ended in 1996) ... while inheritances through wills must usually go through probate first. Confirm your beneficiary status.