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1To what does the law of intestacy apply?
2What is an heir?
3What is an intestacy statute?
4Is it possible to know who a person’s heirs are before that person dies?
5If a decedent dies leaving no heirs, how do intestacy statutes following the UPC dispose of the estate?
6How does the UPC define a descendant?
7How does the UPC define a surviving spouse?
8Under what circumstances does a surviving spouse take the decedent’s entire intestate estate under the UPC?
9A decedent died intestate. The decedent was survived by his spouse and a child by the surviving spouse. The surviving spouse did not have any child...
10Under the UPC, would a surviving spouse take the entire intestate estate if the decedent’s only other surviving relative is a parent?
11Under the UPC, would the surviving spouse take the entire intestate estate if the decedent’s only other surviving relative is a sibling?
12Under the UPC, what share of the decedent’s estate is due to the surviving spouse if all of the decedent’s surviving descendants are shared with th...
13Under the UPC, if one or more of the decedent’s surviving descendants is not also a descendant of the surviving spouse, what share of the decedent’...
14Does the UPC use different rules for what portion of the decedent’s intestate estate is due to a surviving spouse in community-property states and ...
15What is a deserting spouse statute?
16Under the UPC, if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, what portion of the decedent’s intestate estate goes to her surviving descendants?
17Under the UPC, in what order do children and other survivors of the decedent take any portion of the intestate estate not inherited by the survivin...
18What default method of representation does the UPC use to distribute an intestate estate amongst a decedent’s surviving descendants and the descend...
19How is the descendants’ intestate share distributed under a per stirpes method of representation?
20Under the UPC, is an adopted child considered a child of the adoptive parents (i.e., among the adoptive parents’ descendants) for purposes of intes...
21Under the UPC, what are the three circumstances in which an adopted child can inherit from the adopted child’s genetic family under the law of inte...
22A child was adopted by his genetic mother’s husband, i.e., his stepfather. The child reached adulthood and accumulated assets but died intestate, s...
23Assuming parentage has been adjudicated, acknowledged, or otherwise legally established, can a child born to unmarried parents (i.e., a non-marital...
24Under the Uniform Parentage Act (UPA), if an unmarried man has lived with a child from the child’s birth through adulthood and claimed the child as...
25Does the UPA presume paternity if a child was born within 300 days of the termination of any marriage by death, divorce, or annulment?
26A man died, and his surviving spouse bore a child three months later. Two years after the child’s birth, the man’s father died intestate, unmarried...
27Under what circumstances will the UPA presume paternity of an individual who asserts parentage for a child born before a marriage?
28Under what four circumstances does the UPA presume parentage?
29Under the UPC and the law of intestacy in the majority of states, would a half-blood sibling receive a reduced intestate share as compared to a who...
30What is the minority rule governing intestate succession by half-blood relatives?
31A man and a woman had two children together, a boy and a girl. The man and the woman divorced, and the woman subsequently remarried and had a baby....
32Under the UPC, if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse or descendants, to whom does the intestate estate pass?
33What is a deserting parent statute?
34Under the UPC, under what circumstances would a decedent’s surviving grandparents inherit a portion of her intestate estate?
35A man died intestate, survived by relatives on both the maternal and paternal sides. On the maternal side, the survivors were a grandfather and the...
36Under the UPC, could a great-grandparent be an heir in intestacy?
37How does the UPC define a collateral relative?
38In what order does the UPC distribute an intestate estate to a decedent’s ancestors and collateral relatives?
39Under what circumstances would a decedent’s surviving siblings inherit a portion of her intestate estate under the UPC?
40How does the decedent’s intestate estate pass under the UPC if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, descendant, parent, or descendants of parents?
41How does the decedent’s intestate estate pass under the UPC if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, descendant, parent, grandparent, or descend...
42What is an advancement?
43What is the hotchpot method?
44Was a writing traditionally required at common law to find that a lifetime gift was an advancement on the donee’s intestate share?
45Under the UPC, in what four circumstances is a lifetime gift treated as an advancement on the donee’s intestate share?
46A man gave his daughter a car valued at $30,000 for the daughter’s sixteenth birthday. The circumstances of the gift satisfied the requirements for...
47What requirement must an heir satisfy to be treated as a survivor of a decedent under the UPC?
48What requirement must an heir satisfy to be treated as a survivor of a decedent at common law?
49A husband and wife died intestate together in a car accident. There was overwhelming evidence that the wife lived for half an hour longer than the ...
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