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Inheritance Issues When Parents Were Never Married
Inheritances may occur without the need for parents to marry, but the state laws may not recognize the person as an heir or beneficiary to an estate or trust without full recognition when the parents do not leave a legal document behind. The default process may cut the person out of the inheritance when neither […]
Inheritance Rights for Legitimate and Illegitimate Children
An important question in inheritance law is whether a child has the right to inherit from his or her parent. A parent can decide in most states whether or not his or her adult children will receive any inheritance from him or her by making a will with these instructions. However, if the person dies […]