ELFI Ch 1.txt

1.1: What is the term for relatives like aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, and sisters?

1.2: What is a "devisee"?

1.3: Is there something wrong with the following sentence? If so, correct it.
All of the heirs gathered at the lawyer's office to learn what the decedent had left them in his will.

1.4: Fill in the blank: Anne Smith has made an appointment with her lawyer to have her will drawn. She intends to ________ her house to her son.

1.5: Fill in the blank: Jeremy Parker died ________ [without a will].

1.6: Are "convey" and "sell" synonyms? If not, why not?

1.7: Fill in the blank: The ________ [dead person] had no heirs.

1.8: Name some examples of a person's "collaterals."

1.9: Is there something wrong with the following sentence? If so, correct it.
Since Harold did not have a will Maude is the devisee of his entire estate.

1.10: What is the term for a person's children and grandchildren?

1.11: What is the term for a person's parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents?

1.12: Fill in the blank: Hazel's will left a ________ [an item of personal property disposed of by a will] to her brother.

1.13: Fill in the blank: If Hazel had not died ________ [with a will], all of her estate would have passed to her daughter.

1.14: Name some examples of a person's "issue."

1.15: Francine had never married. She died without a will, and all of her blood relatives had died many years before. Therefore, her property will ________ to the state.

1.16: Is there something wrong with the following sentence? If so, what? All of Barbara's heirs are coming to visit her this summer.

1.17: David's father has just written a will naming David as the sole beneficiary of the family business. What property interest does David have as a result of being named in the will?