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Assets with distribution at death determined by the terms of a property arrangement
(ex. life insurance, pay-on-death accounts) |
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| Assets with distribution at death determined by the terms of a will or the intestate succession statues |
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| The passage of property when a decedent dies without a valid will |
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| Intestate as to the Person |
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| A valid will fails to dispose of all the probate estate |
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| A rule of descent under which the oldest male inherits real property to the exclusion of youner males of equal relationshio to the decendent |
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| The law applied by ecclesiastical (church) courts |
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| An interest that has not fully developed or vested |
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| An estate in property lasting for the life of a designated person, usually the owner of the estate |
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| A surviving wife's rights in her deceased husband's real property |
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| A surviving husband's rights in his deceased wife's real property |
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| Distributing property in which distributees of equal degree take equal shares |
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| Distributees take shares by right of presentation at the generation closest to the decedent |
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| Per Capital With Representation |
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| Distributees take shares by right of representation at the generation with living members closest to the decedent |
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| Per Capita at Each Generation |
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| Distributees of the same generation take equal portions of a share determined by right or representation at the generation with living members closest to the decendent |
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| System distributing shares of intestate property equally between maternal ancestors and collaterals and paternal ancestors and collaterals |
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| Remote relatives without an emotional or financial interest in an intestate decedent |
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| Degree-of-Relationship Systems |
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| Determining heirs by counting degrees of kinship between an heir and a decedent |
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| Civil Law Degree-of-Relationship System |
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| Counting the steps from a decedent to an heir through a common ancestor and using the total number of steps |
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| Canon Law Degree-of-Relationship System |
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| The degree of relationship by counting the steps from a decedent to an ancestor and from an heir to that ancestor and using the larger number of steps |
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| Process by which the property of an intestate passes to the state government |
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