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2. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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   Legacy – testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of money. Note: historically, a legacy has referred to either a gift of real property or personal property. Legatee – beneficiary of personal property under a will, i.e., a person receiving a legacy. Probate – legal process of settling the estate of a deceased person.

3. What To Do If You Are the Executor of a Will - AOL

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   Here’s a step-by-step guide on what you need to know about what to do as an executor of a will. ... a certified copy of a death certificate in California costs $21. In Florida, a certified death ...

4. Power of appointment - Wikipedia

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   A special power of appointment allows the recipient to distribute the designated property among a specified group or class of people, not including donee, donee's estate, creditors of donee, or creditors of donee's estate. [2] For example, a testator might grant his brother the special power to distribute property among the testator's three ...

5. Letters of Administration - Wikipedia

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   Letters of Administration are granted by a surrogate court or probate registry to appoint appropriate people to deal with a deceased person's estate where property will pass under intestacy rules or where there are no executors living (and willing and able to act) having been validly appointed under the deceased's will.

6. Joint wills and mutual wills - Wikipedia

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   Although a single document, the joint will is a separate distribution of property by each executor (signatory) and will be treated as such on admission to probate. Mutual wills are any two (or more) wills which are mutually binding, such that following the first death the survivor is constrained in the ability to dispose of the property by the ...

7. 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.