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2. Who Inherits When No Will or Trust Exists? - AOL

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   This means that the deceased’s assets are disbursed in accordance with the area’s laws. Read on to find out how intestate succession works and why it’s important to start thinking about ...

3. Intestacy - Wikipedia

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   Intestacy has a limited application in those jurisdictions that follow civil law or Roman law because the concept of a will is itself less important; the doctrine of forced heirship automatically gives a deceased person's next-of-kin title to a large part (forced estate) of the estate's property by operation of law, beyond the power of the deceased person to defeat or exceed by testamentary gift.

4. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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   Definitions; rules of interpretation; jurisdiction and venue: 2 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

5. Lapse and anti-lapse - Wikipedia

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   The gift would instead revert to the residuary estate or be granted under the law of intestate succession. If the deceased beneficiary was intended to inherit part or all of the residuary estate, then that portion of the estate would pass by intestate succession, as though the testator had left no will. This rule is referred to as the doctrine ...

6. What Are the Laws for Intestate Succession? - AOL

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   Estate planning is part of comprehensive financial planning. It includes making a will. If you don’t make a will before your death, you will die intestate. In that case, your assets will be ...

7. What happens if your life insurance beneficiary dies before you?

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   If there’s no will, the ownership is transferred through intestate succession laws, which determine who inherits based on state guidelines. The new owner will take over the policy until the ...

8. Administrator of an estate - Wikipedia

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   The administrator of an estate is a legal term referring to a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of a deceased person who left no will. [1] Where a person dies intestate, i.e., without a will, the court may appoint a person to settle their debts, pay any necessary taxes and funeral expenses, and distribute the remainder according to the procedure set down by law.

9. Forced heirship - Wikipedia

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   The legitime is equal to 25% of the patrimony (if one forced heir); or 50% (if more than one); and each forced heir will receive the lesser of an equal proportion of the legitime or what they would have received through intestacy (LCC art. 1495, Succession of Greenlaw). If a person who would have otherwise qualified as a forced heir dies before ...