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 RabelaisWills and EstatesIntestacy, Wills, Trusts, Estates, and Probate: OverviewEstate Planning ChecklistEstate Planning for Digital AssetsNonprobate TransfersJoint TenancyDead Hand Control: Conditional Bequests and DevisementsProbate and The Personal RepresentativeUniform Probate Code (UPC)Probate Estate AdministrationExecutorsDurable Power of AttorneyLiving Wills and the Durable Power Of Attorney for HealthcareIntestate DistributionIntestate Distribution Scheme: Descent and Distribution StatutesIntestate Distribution to Issue: Per Stirpes, Per Capita With Representation, and Per Capita At Each GenerationIntestate Distribution to Ancestors and Collateral RelativesWho Qualifies as Issue of a Decedent?Uniform Parentage Act (UPA)Limits to Testamentary FreedomSurviving SpouseSurviving Spouse Support: Pension Survival Benefits, Marital Property, Homestead and Personal Property Exemption, and the Family AllowanceElective Share Of The Augmented EstateCommunity PropertyOmitted SpouseOmitted ChildrenInheritanceGifts to Children: Advancements, Guardianships, Conservatorships, Custodianships, and TrustsAppointing 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 MinorsTrusts for MinorsDisclaimersLapsed Gifts and Anti-Lapse StatutesClass GiftsAdemption, Avoidance Of Ademption, and Abatement Bars To Inheritance: Homicide, Abuse, Or AbandonmentWills: Execution and ProbateWillsFraud and Tortious Interference With An Expectancy Of An Inheritance Or A GiftWill Execution: The Common Law Elements Of The Wills Act FormalitiesModern Trend in Wills Act Formalities: Substantial Compliance and Harmless Error DoctrinesWill Components: Will Integration, Codicils, Incorporation By Reference, and Acts Of Independent SignificanceWill Construction and Extrinsic Evidence: Plain Meaning Rule, Patent and Latent Ambiguities, Will ReformationHolographic WillsWill Revocation and RevivalWill ContestsWill Contests: Testamentary Capacity, Insane Delusion, and Undue InfluenceWill Contracts: Contracts to Provide for a Beneficiary, or to Not Change or Revoke a WillWill Substitutes (aka Nonprobate Instruments)Simplified Probate: Collection of Personal Property by Affidavit and Summary Probate AdministrationPour-Over Wills