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2. 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.

3. Lineal descendant - Wikipedia

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   A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...

4. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. Legal declaration where a person distributes property at death "Last Will" redirects here. For the film, see Last Will (film). This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of ...

5. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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   Globally, the most common form of consanguineous union is between first cousins, in which the spouses share 1 ⁄ 8 of their genes inherited from a common ancestor, and so their progeny are homozygous (or more correctly autozygous) at 1 ⁄ 16 of all loci (r = 0.0625). [27]

6. Will contest - Wikipedia

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   A will contest, in the law of property, is a formal objection raised against the validity of a will, based on the contention that the will does not reflect the actual intent of the testator (the party who made the will) or that the will is otherwise invalid.

7. Inheritance - Wikipedia

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   The first form of inheritance is the inheritance of cultural capital (i.e. linguistic styles, higher status social circles, and aesthetic preferences). [30] The second form of inheritance is through familial interventions in the form of inter vivos transfers (i.e. gifts between the living), especially at crucial junctures in the life courses.