thisMatter.com › Money › Wills, Estates, and Trusts I have nothing, I owe a great deal; the rest I give to the poor. — the purported will of Rabelais Wills and Estates Intestacy, Wills, Trusts, Estates, and Probate: Overview Estate Planning Checklist Estate Planning for Digital Assets Nonprobate Transfers Joint Tenancy Dead Hand Control: Conditional Bequests and Devisements Probate and The Personal Representative Uniform Probate Code (UPC) Probate Estate Administration Personal Representatives (Executors and Administrators) Durable Power of Attorney Living Wills and the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Intestate Distribution Intestate Distribution Scheme: Descent and Distribution Statutes Intestate Distribution to Issue: Per Stirpes, Per Capita With Representation, and Per Capita At Each Generation Intestate Distribution to Ancestors and Collateral Relatives Who Qualifies as Issue of a Decedent? Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) Limits to Testamentary Freedom Surviving Spouse Surviving Spouse Support: Pension Survival Benefits, Marital Property, Homestead and Personal Property Exemption, and the Family Allowance Elective Share of The Augmented Estate Community Property Omitted Spouse Omitted Children Inheritance Gifts to Children: Advancements, Guardianships, Conservatorships, Custodianships, and Trusts Appointing a Personal Guardian and Leaving Property for Minor Children: Property Guardianships, Uniform Transfer to Minors Act Custodianships, Child's Trust and Family Pot Trusts, 529 and Coverdell Accounts, and Handling Life Insurance Proceeds for Minors Trusts for Minors Disclaimers Lapsed Gifts and Anti-Lapse Statutes Class Gifts Ademption, Avoidance of Ademption, and Abatement Bars To Inheritance: Homicide, Abuse, Or Abandonment Wills: Execution and Probate Wills Will Execution: The Common Law Elements of The Wills Act Formalities Modern Trend in Wills Act Formalities: Substantial Compliance and Harmless Error Doctrines Will Components: Will Integration, Codicils, Incorporation By Reference, and Acts of Independent Significance Will Construction and Extrinsic Evidence: Plain Meaning Rule, Patent and Latent Ambiguities, Will Reformation Holographic Wills Will Revocation and Revival Fraud and Tortious Interference With An Expectancy of An Inheritance Or A Gift Will Contests Will Contests: Testamentary Capacity, Insane Delusion, and Undue Influence Will Contracts: Contracts to Provide for a Beneficiary, or to Not Change or Revoke a Will Will Substitutes (aka Nonprobate Instruments) Simplified Probate: Collection of Personal Property by Affidavit and Summary Probate Administration Pour-Over Wills