Wills, Trusts and Estates Midterm Questions with 100% Verified Answers Latest Update

Wills, Trusts and Estates Midterm Questions with 100% Verified
Answers Latest Update

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Destroy or completely end, greatly lessen or reduce. abatement


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1. Disposing of something left in a will before death, with the effect ademption
that the person it was
left to does not get it. 2. The gift, before death, of something left in a
will to a person who
was left it.


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a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom ancestor
one is descended


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a proceeding in a state where a dead person had property, but which ancillary administration
is different from
the state where that person lived and has her main estate
administered


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state laws that prevent lapsed legacies and lapsed devises antilapse statute


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a thing that has been added or changed with an estate augmented estate


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a clause at the end of a document that witnesses the signing of the attestation clause
document by the
testator

, Question: Answer:
a person who inherits under a will beneficiary


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a gift by will usually of personal property bequest


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an addition to a will that adds to it or changes it codicil


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having a blood relationship consanguinity


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a guardian or preserver of another person's property appointed by a conservator
court because the
other person cannot legally manage it.


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a person who has died decedent


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people who are of the bloodline of an ancestor descendent


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a person to whom land is given by will devisee


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the gift of land by will - any gift by will devise


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the refusal, rejection, or renunciation of a claim, a power, or property disclaimer