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Legal Term Definitions

Abate

Abatement

Adeem

Ademption

Adjusted Gross Estate

Administration

Administration Expenses

Administrator

Administratrix

Affidavit

Alternate Beneficiary

Alternate Executor

Alternate Guardian

Alternate Trustee

Applicable Exclusion Amount

Appointee

Ascendant

Assign

Assignment

Attestation Clause

Attorney

Beneficiary

Bequest

Bond

Charitable Organization

Charity

Co-Guardian

Codicil

Collateral Heir

Community Property

Conditional Gift

Contingent Beneficiary

Contingent Executor

Contingent Guardian

Contingent Trustee

Corpus

Cousin

Death Taxes

Decedent

Descendant

Devise

Devisee

Disclaim

Disclaimant

Disclaimer

Disclaimer Trust

Disinherit

Disinterested Witness

Distribution

Domicile

EGTRRA

Emancipated

Entireties Property

Entity

Escheat

Estate

Estate Tax

Execute

Executor

Executrix

Failed Testamentary Gift

Federal Estate Tax

Fiduciary

Fraud

Fraud in the Execution

Fraud in the Inducement

General Distribution

General Gift

Gross Estate

Guardian

Guardian of the Estate

Guardian of the Person

Heir

Incapacitated

Incompetent

Inheritance

Insurance

Intangible Personal Property

Intestacy

Intestacy Laws

Intestate

Intestate Estate

Inventory

Irrevocable

Irrevocable Trust

Issue

Joint Property

Joint Tenancy with the Right of Survivorship

Lapse

Legacy

Legatee

Life Insurance

Limited Guardian

Lineal Heir

Living Will

Maternal

Minor

Mirror Wills

Natural Objects of a Person's Bounty

Natural Person

Non-Probate Property

Paternal

Pecuniary

Pecuniary Bequest

Per Stirpes

Personal Property

Personal Representative

Plenary Guardian

Power of Appointment

Power of Attorney

Predecease

Primary Beneficiary

Primary Executor

Primary Guardian

Primary Trustee

Probate

Probate Estate

Real Property

Reciprocal Wills

Residuary Beneficiary

Residuary Bequest

Residuary Estate

Residuary Gift

Residue

Revocable

Revocable Trust

Right of Survivorship

Self-Settled Trust

Settlor

Simultaneous Death

Sound Mind

Specific Gift

Spendthrift Trust

Step Child

Subscribing Witness

Survival

Survive

Tangible Personal Property

Taxable Estate

Tenancy by the Entireties

Tenancy in Common

Tenants in Common

Testamentary

Testamentary Capacity

Testamentary Gift

Testamentary Trust

Testate

Testator

Testatrix

Third Party Beneficiary Contract

Trust

Trust Beneficiary

Trustee

Unclaimed Share

Undivided Ownership

Undue Influence

Uniform Transfers to Minors Act

Unlimited Marital Deduction

Ward

Will

Witness

 
 
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