General

Question 1

Who are your 2nd line descendants/issues?

Answer 1

Children, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren

Question 2

Who are your ascendants?

Answer 2

Parents, grandparents and great grandparents

Question 3

Who are your collateral kin?

Answer 3

brother, sister, aunts, uncles, cousin

Question 4

Who are your 1st line collaterals?

Answer 4

Issue (children/ gC/ ggC) of parents

Question 5

Where does the estate pass in a parentelic system?

Answer 5

Passes to issue of grandparents

Question 6

Where does the estate pass ina degree of kinship system?

Answer 6

passes to closest relatives (count the degrees)

Question 7

What is the 6 prong test for equitable adoption?

Answer 7

1. implied agreement to adopt
2. Reliance
3. Performance by biological parents
4. Performance by the child
5. Partial performance by foster parents
6. Intestacy of foster parents

Question 8

An intervivos transfer must be accompanied by a ____ that the donor intended it to be an advancement

Answer 8

Simultaneous Writing

Question 9

In the absence of a simultaneous writing, an intervivos transfer is presumed to be a ____

Answer 9

gift

Question 10

The UPC provides that an heir can be negatively disinherited from an intestate distribution by ______

Answer 10

a provision in the will