| Question | Answer |
| Ownership of property by a husband and wife together | Tenancy by the entirety |
| a single estate in property held by two or more persons created under one instrument at one time | Joint tenancy |
| a testamentary document that distributes wealth and directs how the estate should be administered | Will |
| Dying without a valid will | intestate |
| a woman who makes and executes a will | testatrix |
| A party who received a gift by will of personal property | legatee |
| a gift by will of real property | devise |
| a clause that states where, when and whom the notary public is that is certifying the signature | jurat |
| a POA that does not terminate upon the principal becoming mentally incompetent | durable general POA |
| a proportional reduction of gifts to beneficiaries because the estate lacks sufficient funds to pay the decedent's debts | abatement |
| a gift by will of personal property | legacy |
| a person nominated in the will to carry out the directions and the distribution of gifts contained in the will | executor |
| an heir of beneficiary does not inherit from the decedent if the heir or beneficiary killed the decedent | slayers rule |
| a gift by will fails because it is no longer owned by the testator or it is no longer in existence | ademption |
| a gift by will fails because the beneficiary predeceased the decedent or the beneficiary is unwilling to take the item | lapse |
| method of distributing the decedents estate when the decedent has left behind surviving issue from different generations | per stirpes |
| all heirs within a class receive equal shares | per capita |
| living trust, a trust to take effect while the person is living, not upon the death of a person | inter vivos trust |
| the beneficiary of a trust | cestui que trust |
