Wills Pt. 1

Question 1

Legal declaration of a persons intent to distribute property after his/her death

Answer 1

Will

Question 2

Related by blood

Answer 2

consanguinity

Question 3

Related by marriage

Answer 3

Affinity

Question 4

A person who dies without a valid will

Answer 4

Intestate

Question 5

Death without a valid

Answer 5

Intestacy

Question 6

A document that will formally amend a will

Answer 6

codicil

Question 7

a form of joint tenancy that is only available to a husband and wife

Answer 7

tentant by the entirety

Question 8

Ownership in property by two or more persons in which each owner has an undivided interest in the property without a right of survivorship

Answer 8

Tenancy in common

Question 9

Bank account held “in trust” for another

Answer 9

Totten trust

Question 10

Property that is moveable and touchable

Answer 10

tangible property

Question 11

property that evidence ownership in something of value but has no value by itself (stocks, bonds, deeds)

Answer 11

Intangible Property

Question 12

A tenancy which allows a person to own real property for his or her life only

Answer 12

Life Estate

Question 13

A will which is drafted solely in the handwriting of the testator

Answer 13

Holographic will

Question 14

An oral will

Answer 14

nuncupative will

Question 15

the deceased person

Answer 15

decedent

Question 16

Methods to accumulate, manage, and dispose of one real and personal property by the owner of the property by both premortem and postmortem

Answer 16

Estate Planning

Question 17

Fiduciary who holds legal titles to trust property of the benifit of the equitable title holder

Answer 17

Trustee

Question 18

Personal representative of a will (masculine)

Answer 18

Executor

Question 19

Personal representative of a will (female)

Answer 19

Executrix

Question 20

Person appointed by a court to represent the estate of a decedent that died intestate

Answer 20

administrator

Question 21

female personal representative, assigned by the court

Answer 21

Administratrix

Question 22

the right of a terminally ill person to refuse life sustaining treatment

Answer 22

Right to die

Question 23

the act of giving property by will

Answer 23

Devise

Question 24

One who dispose of property in a will

Answer 24

Devisor

Question 25

A recipient of property in a will

Answer 25

devisee

Question 26

The judicial procedure by which a testamentary document is established be valid will; the proving of a will to the satisfaction of the court.

Answer 26

Probate

Question 27

Transferor of real property

Answer 27

grantor

Question 28

Inheritor of property of a deceased person

Answer 28

Heirs

Question 29

The act of signing one's name on a document

Answer 29

subscribe

Question 30

the right, enforceable solely in equity to the beneficial enjoyment of property to which another person holds the legal title: a property interest held by one person at the request of another for the benefit of a third person

Answer 30

Trust

Question 31

A gift by will, ESP, of personal property and ofter money

Answer 31

Legacy

Question 32

One who is named in a will to take personal property; one who will receive a legacy or bequest

Answer 32

Legatee

Question 33

One who bequeaths a legacy

Answer 33

Legator

Question 34

to give property by will

Answer 34

bequeath

Question 35

distributing at estate

Answer 35

Administrating an estate

Question 36

to take back, to cancel

Answer 36

Revoke

Question 37

Divided equally among all individual, USC. In the same class "by the head"

Answer 37

Per Capita

Question 38

Child out of wedlock

Answer 38

Illegitimate Child

Question 39

Traditionally, a will disposing of personal property

Answer 39

Testament

Question 40

The process by which the state inherits a decedent's property when there are no living relatives

Answer 40

Escheat

Question 41

To bear witness, testify

Answer 41

Attest

Question 42

Proportionately decided between beneficiaries according to their deceased ancestor's share

Answer 42

Per Stirpes

Question 43

Loss of testamentary girt because the testator no longer owns the property at death

Answer 43

Ademption