Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Medical examiners and medical professionals who cared for a patient upon their death were previously permitted to remove a part of a body if there was no known next of kin, or if the body was unidentified. [5] This change is to encourage the practice of allowing an anatomical gift to be made by a notation on a driver's license. [5] [3]
California is late to making the change; 45 other states and D.C. already have next-of-kin laws. California requires hospitals to turn to a patient’s next of kin, closing a longtime loophole ...
Consequently, when the estate under administration consists wholly or mainly of land, the court will grant administration to the heir to the exclusion of the next of kin. In the absence of any heir or next of kin, the Crown has the right to property (other than land) as bona vacantia, and to the land by virtue of the historic land rights of the ...
Virginia (also extends inheritance rights to relatives of a predeceased spouse) Until 2013, Texas had no laughing heir statute, instead allowing estates to pass to the nearest lineal ancestors or descendants "without end". [2] Texas passed such a law (HB 2912) in 2013, and thereafter following the Uniform Probate Code.
Estate planning may involve a will, trusts, beneficiary designations, powers of appointment, property ownership (for example, joint tenancy with rights of survivorship, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entirety), gifts, and powers of attorney (specifically a durable financial power of attorney and a durable medical power of attorney).
The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance.. The Act specifies that, if two or more people die within 120 hours of one another, and no will or other document provides for this situation explicitly, each is considered to have predeceased the others.
This disability often arises from minority, mental incapacity, or lack of access to counsel.Consequently, every application to the court on behalf of a minor, a mentally incapacitated person, or a person detained without access to an attorney, who does not have a legal guardian or someone authorized to act on his or her behalf with a power of attorney, must be made through a next friend ...
In all these instances, professional probate researchers work to trace the next-of-kin, or the named heirs, in the case of a last will and testament. Probate researchers are also called heir hunters, heir searchers, probate genealogists, and forensic genealogists.