Drafting a Will
Administration of an Estate
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Persons involved Category
Chance
100
Two or more persons who attest and subscribe a will.
What are witnesses?
100
Land, buildings, and things permanently attached to them.
What is real property?
100
The property accumulated during a person's lifetime and owned at the time of death.
What is an estate?
100
Someone who is entitled by intestate statute to receive real or personal property.
What is an heir?
100
Lose 100
Lose 100
200
To sign one's name, generally at the end of a will.
What is subscribe?
200
The arrangement of a person's assets to gain maximum financial benefit of tax laws for the disposition of those assets.
What is an estate plan?
200
Any property that is not real property.
What is personal property?
200
The person who makes posthumous gifts via a will.
What is a testator?
200
The set of California laws that govern estate administration.
What is the Probate Code?
300
to perform or complete
What is execute?
300
The court procedure by which a will is proved to be valid or invalid.
What is Probate?
300
A court proceeding of a decedent's estate with limited or no court supervision.
What is informal probate?
300
A person entitled to receive property under a will.
What is a beneficiary?
300
Someone who receives personal property under a will.
What is a legatee?
400
To bear witness; to affirm or verify as genuine.
What is attest
400
to make a gift of real property through a will.
What is to devise?
400
The process of appointing a personal representative to collect, preserve, manage, and inventory the decedent's estate; notifying creditors; paying the decedent's debts and death taxes due; and distributing the remaining estate property to beneficiaries.
What is estate administration?
400
A person appointed by the probate court to manage the estate and distribute the assets according to the will or intestate statutes.
What is a personal representative?
400
The nearest blood relatives of the decedent, or those who would inherit from an intestate decedent regardless of blood relationship.
What is "next of kin"?
500
A document making minor changes or amendments to a Will.
What is a codicil
500
When a person dies without leaving a valid will.
What is intestacy?
500
Objects affixed to land
What is a fixture?
500
A personal representative who is female.
What is an executrix?
500
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