NALS Chapter19_75499 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Administrator cum testamento annexo | when the name executor of a will cannot or will not serve, the court appoints and administrator |
Ancillary proceeding | A proceeding that takes place outside the state of a decedents domicile due to do a probate requirement for real estate or tangible property in that state |
Beneficiary | trial by a judge, rather than a jury |
Codicil | An amendment to a will, either to add provisions or delete provisions of a will, which is executed with all the formalities of a will; this term means little will |
Decedent | Those persons who are in the blood line of the ancestors |
Devise | Also, prersiduary gift, a gift of real property by will. under the uniform probate code |
Devisee | The person to whom real property is given by will |
Distributed in kind | in estate administration, property that is not liquidated nd is distributed in the form in which it came |
estate | A persons property |
Executor | A person or entity appointed by a person to administer the terms of his will |
Executor de bonis non | Representative appointed by the court when the name executor to the will cannot or will not serve |
Guardian ad litem | person appointed by the court to represent a minor or incapacitated person in a legal proceeding |
inter vivos trust | A trust created during a decedents lifetime that becomes operative during his lifetime |
Intestate | Having dies without a will |
Legacy | A disposition of personal property by will |
Legatee | The person to whom a legacy is given in a will |
Letters of administration | Formal document issued by probate court appointing the administrator of an estate |
Liquidation | The conversion of all a debtor's nonexempt property in a bankruptcy proceeding |
Minor | A person under the age of legal competence |
Probate | Court proceeding by which a will is proved valid or invalid. the term is also used to mean all proceedings pertaining to the administration of an estate |
Proof of will | The process by which a decedents will is validated and admitted to probate |
Self proved will | A will that does not require further proof to be admitted to probate |
Testate | Having died leaving a valid will |
Testator | A person who makes a will |
Vulnerable adults | Adults who lack the mental or physical capability to care for themselves |
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