§ 30.500 When does the anti-lapse provision apply?
§ 30.501 When is joint tenancy presumed?
§ 30.502 How does a judge resolve conflicts between the anti-lapse provision and the presumption of joint tenancy?
§ 30.503 What happens if an heir or devisee participates in the killing of the decedent?
§ 30.504 May a judge allow fees for attorneys representing interested parties?
§ 30.505 How must minors or other legal incompetents be represented?
§ 30.506 When a decedent died intestate without heirs, what law applies to trust or restricted property?
§ 30.507 How will trust personalty be distributed if decedent died intestate on or after June 20, 2006, and the Act does not specify how the trust personalty should be distributed?
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Terms Used In CFR > Title 43 > Subtitle A > Part 30 > Subpart N - Miscellaneous

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
  • Per stirpes: The legal means by which the children of a decedent, upon the death of an ancestor at a level above that of the decedent, receive by right of representation the share of the ancestor
  • restricted property: as used in this part does not include the restricted lands of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma or the Osage Nation. See 43 CFR 30.101
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.