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Intestate Succession
Descent
Distribution
Intestate
Heirs and heirs apparent
Ancestor
Descendant
Collateral Relative
Consanguineous Relationship
Affinity Relationship
Testate Succession
Will
251.001 Who can make a will (and change a will)?
aka Legal Capacity
Testamentary Capacity (sound mind)
(question of fact)
Codicil
Testator; Testatrix
Devise
Devisee
Bequest
Legacy
Legatee
Beneficiary (wills)
Trust
Settlor (trusts) aka trustor/grantor/donor
Beneficiary (trusts) aka cetui que trust/donee/grantee
Trustee
Principal (trusts) aka trust corpus/estate/res
Income (trusts)
Administration
Administrator
Executor
Personal Representative
Probate
Probate Asset
Nonprobate Asset
2 types of marital property systems that governs parties and their property
Inception of title rule
Quasi-community property
Inter Vivos Transfers
Intestate as to the person
Intestate as to the property
Per capita distribution
Per stirpes distribution
Escheat
half-blooded heirs, rule for Texas
Parentelic System (Texas)
Adopted children, dual inheritance
Inheritance rights of adoptive parents
Inheritance by biological parents (when they gave child up for adoption)
Adoption by estoppel or equitable adoption and elements, inheritance
Non-marital children (through mom) and inheritance
Non-marital children (through dad) and inheritance
Unworthy heirs
What if beneficiary of a life insurance policy is convicted and sentenced for the willful death of the insured?
Slayer statutes
Constructive trust
What is the difference between constructive trust and forfeiture?
201.062 Estate Code- Treatment of Certain Parent-Child Relationships aka
Disqualification of a bad parent
Disqualification of surviving spouse of a voidable marriage
Estate Code 123.101-123.104
Result if marriage deemed void
Survival
Estate Code 121.052 (applies to intestacy)
Failure to survive presumed under certain circumstances
Estate Code 121.053
Estate Code 201.002
Separate Estate of an Intestate
Estate Code 102.002 Homestead Rights Not Affected by Character of the Homestead
Community Property Presumption
Community Property
Separate Property
Testamentary Capacity-Adjudication of incompetency and lucid intervals
Testamentary Capacity- Sane Individuals
Requirements of a valid will
Types of wills
Holographic Wills
Classifications of testamentary gifts
Types of Beneficiaries
Ademption
Pretermitted Heirs
Death of beneficiary- lapse
Anti-lapse statutes
Will revocation
Community Real Property Intestate Succession- Surviving Spouse and Children that are from that marriage
Community Personal Property- Intestate Succession, surviving spouse, kids from that marriage
Community real and personal property, intestate succession, surviving spouse, at least one kid isn't surviving spouse's
