Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Terms
- Abatement
- Account
- Acts of Independent Significance
- Ademption
- Adjust
- Adoption
- Advancement
- Ambiguity
- Antilapse
- Attestation Clause
- Attestation
- Attested Will
- Augmented Estate
- Authenticity
- Bar
- Bifurcation
- Capacity
- Capital Lost Plus Interest Measure
- Charitable Trust
- Claflin Doctrine
- Class Gift
- Collateral Kindred
- Community Property
- Conscious Presence
- Custodial Function
- Decant
- Declaration of Trust
- Deed of Trust
- Degree of Relationship
- Degree-of-Relationship System
- Demonstrative Devise
- Dependent Relative Revocation
- Devise
- Disclaim
- Discretionary Trust
- Disinherit
- Distribution Function
- Divorce
- Drogo Order
- Duress
- Elective Share
- English Per Stirpes
- Equitable Adoption
- Equitable Deviation Doctrine
- Equivocation
- Escheat
- Exculpation
- Execution Ceremony
- Exoneration of Liens
- Express Revocation
- Fiduciary Duty
- First-Line Collateral
- Formality
- Fraud
- Functions of a Trustee
- General Devise
- Guardian
- Half-Blood
- Harmless Error
- Heir
- Holographic Will
- Hotchpot
- Identity Theory
- Impartiality
- Implied Revocation
- Incorporation by Reference
- Inheirit
- Insane Delusion
- Integration
- Intent Theory
- Intentional Disinheritance of Children
- Inter Vivos Trust
- Intestacy
- Investment Function
- Irrevocable Trust
- Joint Will
- Lapse
- Latent Ambiguity
- Life Insurance
- Line of Sight
- Loyalty
- Making a Will
- Mandatory Trust
- Marital Property Portion
- Marriage
- Meaning
- Merger
- Modern Per Stirpes
- Modifying or Terminating a Trust
- Natural Objects of His or Her Bounty
- Negative Will
- No Reformation
- No-Contest Clause
- No-Further-Inquiry Rule
- No-Residue-of-a-Residue Rule
- Nonmarital Child
- Notarized Will
- Nuncupative Will
- Oral Trust
- Parentelic System
- Partial Intestacy
- Partial Revocation by Physical Act
- Patent Ambiguity
- Pay-on-Death
- Per Capita at Each Generation
- Personal Usage
- Pet Trust
- Physical Act Revocation
- Plain Meaning
- Posthumous Child
- Posthumously Conceived Child
- Pour-Over Will
- Power of Appointment
- Precatory Trust
- Presence
- Principal and Income Problem
- Probate
- Protective Trust
- Prudence
- Prudent Investor Rule
- Purging Statute
- Removing a Trustee
- Representation Calculator
- Representation
- Republication by Codicil
- Res
- Residuary Devise
- Resulting Trust
- Reviving a Will
- Revocable Trust
- Revoking a Will
- Rule Against Perpetuities
- Rule of Convenience
- Satisfaction
- Secret Trust
- Self-Settled Asset Protection Trust
- Semi-Secret Trust
- Separate Property
- Settlor
- Signature
- Simultaneous Death
- Slayer Rule
- Specific Devise
- Spendthrift Trust
- Strict Compliance
- Subscription
- Substantial Compliance
- Support Trust
- Surrogate
- Tangible Personal Property Memo
- Testacy
- Testamentary Trust
- Testing
- Total Return Measure
- Trust
- Undue Influence
- Unintentional Disinheritance of Children
- Unitrust
- Void
- Voluntary
- Will
- Words of Survivorship