Wills - BM Outline

Question 1

NEEDS EDIT!!!!!!

Non-marital children inherit from and through their mother, but not from their father, unless paternity is established by:

(1) child born during actual or attempted marriage,
(2) parents married or attempted to marry

Question 2

Revocation by Physical Act: 3 Elements

Answer 2

1. Physical Act [destroying, burning, tearing, obliterating, cancellation & interlineation]
2. By testator OR another in testator’s presence and acting at the testator’s direction
   AND
3. Simultaneous intent to revoke

Question 3

Where there are 2 original wills (both signed, not photocopies), and the testator (or someone in the testator’s presence and at the testator’s direction) revokes one of the wills by physical act, the duplicate version is _____________.

Answer 3

Also revoked as a matter of law