This involves arranging a person’s assets in a way that maintains and protects the family most effectively during and after a person’s life.
What is estate planning?
100
This is the minimum age for making a will for most people (with these exceptions).
What is 18 years old (a day before 18th bday), military personnel and married persons
100
This statement specifies whether a person wants life-sustaining medical treatment if they become desperately ill.
What is an advance directive?
100
Intentionally burning, tearing, canceling, or obliterating a will.
What is a destruction of a will.
100
If the exact thing that is bequeathed or devised is not in existence or has been disposed of at the time of the testator’s death.
What is ademption or advancement.
200
The testator had the ability to:
- Understand and carry in mind the property owned and relationship to those who have claim to the estate
- Free from delusion that might influence decisions
- Knew he/she was making a will
What is soundness of mind?
200
This is a written statement that authorizes an agent or surrogate to make medical decisions for another in the event of the other’s inability to do so.
What is a health care proxy or medical POA.
200
This is done to revoke or making changes in a will, which is good to do every five years.
What is execution of a new will.
200
This is the discharge of a legal obligation by paying a party what is due.
What is satisfaction
300
Person who makes a will?
Who is a Testator or Testatrix
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Writing can be printed, type-written, or written entirely in hand of the testator, but who can have a nuncupative will?
Only a soldier in the military service or a mariner at sea
300
A directive to physicians, medical direct, or health care declaration is this.
What is a living will
300
This is when the marriage of a person after executing a will has no effect on the will.
What is subsequent marriage (2nd marriage)
300
This is a bequest or devise that is left in a will to a legatee or devisee that died before the testator.
What is a lapsed legacy or lapsed devise
400
This is a uniform law attempting to standardized and modernized laws relating to the affairs of This decedents, minors, and certain people who need protection.
What is Uniform Probate Code
400
This may be anywhere on the instrument.
What is signature
400
This leaves “all the rest, residue and remainder” of the estate to named beneficiaries after special gifts, if any, are provided for.
What is a residuary clause
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This occurs by destruction ro disposal of a specific legacy by the testator during his or her lifetime.
What is extinction.
500
The person who makes a gift of personal property in a will is called this.
What is a legator?
500
This means to bear witness to the testator’s signature and this means to write below or underneath.
What is Attestation and Subscription
500
All people who have descended from a common ancestor such as children, grandchildren, great grandchildren etc.
What is an issue
500
In most states, this revokes a gift in a will made to a former spouse.
What is a divorce or annulment?
500
When the deaths of two or more people in such a way that it is impossible to determine who died before whom.