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AB trust
abatement
abstract of trust
accumulation trust
acknowledgment
ademption
administration (of an estate)
administrator
administratrix
adult
advance directive
age of majority
agent
alternate beneficiary
ancillary probate
appraisal
appraiser
appreciation
attestation
attorney-in-fact
augmented estate
avails
basis
beneficiary
bequeath
bequest
bypass trust
carryover basis
cash surrender value
certification of trust
charitable trust
child
codicil
comfort care
community property with right of survivorship
consanguinity
conservator
contest
contingent beneficiary
cost basis
credit shelter trust
cum testamento annexo
curator
curtesy
custodian
death taxes
decedent
defeasance
devise
devisee
discharge (of probate administrator)
disclaim
disinherit
distributee
donation
donee
donor
dower and curtesy
durable power of attorney
durable power of attorney for finances
durable power of attorney for health care
elective share
entity
escheat
estate
estate planning
estate taxes
executor
executrix
exemption trust
failure of issue
family allowance
family pot trust
final beneficiary
financial guardian
forced share
funding a trust
future interest
generation-skipping transfer tax
generation-skipping trust
gift taxes
goods & chattels
grantor
grantor retained income trust
gross estate
guardian
guardian of the estate
guardianship
health care directives
health care proxy
heir
heir apparent
heir at law
holographic will
in terrorem
incapacity
incidents of ownership
incompetence
incompetency
inherit
inheritance taxes
inheritors
intangible property
inter vivos trust
intestate
intestate succession
inventory
irrevocable trust
issue
joint tenancy
kindred
lapse
lawful issue
legacy
letters testamentary
life beneficiary
life insurance
life insurance avails
life tenant
life-prolonging procedures
life-sustaining procedures
lineal descendants
living trust
living will
marital deduction
marital life estate trust
marital property
minor
mortality charge
net estate
net taxable estate
next of kin
nonprobate
pay-on-death (POD) designation
per capita
per stirpes
personal property
personal representative
POD
pot trust
pour-over will
power of appointment
power of attorney
predeceased spouse
pretermitted heir
principal
probate
probate court
property
property control trust
property guardian
proving a will
public administrator
pur autre vie
QDOT trust
QTIP trust
quasi-community property
remainderman
residuary beneficiary
residuary estate
residue
restraint on alienation
right of representation
right of survivorship
rule against perpetuities
self-proving will
separate property
settlor
sound mind
special administrator
specific bequest
spendthrift trust
springing durable power of attorney
sprinkling trust
statutory share
stepchild
stepped-up basis
stirpes
succession
successor trustee
summary probate
surrender value
surviving spouse
surviving spouse's trust
taking against the will
tangible personal property
tax basis
tenancy by the entirety
tenancy in common
tenants in common
testamentary disposition
testamentary trust
testate
testator
Totten trust
trust corpus
trust merger
trustee
trustee powers
trustor
Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
Uniform Transfer-on-Death Security Act
Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
usufruct
vested remainder
will
words of procreation

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