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

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    Though laws differ from state to state, the core of intestate succession is defined in the Uniform Probate Code. This dictates the deceased’s inheritance goes to close relatives, generally ...

  3. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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    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 Foreign Personal Representatives and Ancillary Administration

  4. 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.

  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.

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    If you die without a will, your state’s intestate succession, or next-of-kin laws, will determine who gets your house if yours was the only name on the deed. It varies by state, but generally ...

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

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  8. Inheritance - Wikipedia

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    In modern law, the terms inheritance and heir refer exclusively to succession to property by descent from a deceased dying intestate. Takers in property succeeded to under a will are termed generally beneficiaries, and specifically devises for real property, bequests for personal property (except money), or legatees for money.

  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 ...