Lesson 1

Question 1

Intestate Succession

Answer 1

Intestate succession is the rules of law that govern the distribution of an individual who dies without a valid will or with a will which does not completely dispose of his or her property.

Question 2

Per Stirpes rule

Answer 2

Allows the living descendants of a predeceased descendant under an intestacy statute to take the share which their parent would have taken had he or she been living.

Question 3

Per Capita rule

Answer 3

Allows the living descendants of all predeceased descendants to take equally at each generational level.

Question 4

Simultaneous Death rule

Answer 4

Absent evidence that two parties did not die simultaneously, the property of each of the deceased parties should be disposed of as if he or she had survived the other.