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Wills, trusts and estates
Part of the common law series
Wills
Legal history of wills
Joint wills and mutual wills
Will contract
Codicil
Holographic will
Oral will
Sections
Attestation clause
Residuary clause
Incorporation by reference
Contest
Testamentary capacity
Undue influence
Insane delusion
Fraud
No-contest clause
Property disposition
Lapse and anti-lapse
Ademption
Abatement
Satisfaction of legacies
Acts of independent significance
Elective share
Pretermitted heir
Trusts
Express
Resulting
Constructive
Common types
Bare
Discretionary
Accumulation and maintenance
Interest in possession
Charitable
Purpose
Incentive
Other types
Protective
Spendthrift
Life insurance
Remainder
Life interest
Reversionary interest
Testamentary
Honorary
Asset-protection
Special needs
Supplemental needs
Governing doctrines
Pour-over will
Cy-près doctrine
Hague Convention (conflict law)
Application in civil law
Dishonest assistance
Estate administration
Intestacy
Testator
Probate
Power of appointment
Simultaneous death
Slayer rule
Laughing heir
Advancement
Disclaimer of interest
Inheritance tax
Related topics
Advance directive (Living will)
Blind trust
Forced heirship
Totten trust
Other common law areas
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A missing heir is a person related to a decedent (dead person), or testator of a will, but whose residence, domicile, Post office, or other address is not known. A missing heir may be an orphan or other person under a disability, who may need a guardian or custodian of funds.
Missing heirs often come up in the context of legal actions involving wills, title to real property, or a quiet title action. A private investigator, probate research firm or forensic genealogist may be hired by the executor, trustee, or administrator to find the missing heirs.
A probate court or surrogate judge may require the service of a citation, notice of petition, summons, or subpoena to the relevant persons who may be missing persons, or may know the whereabouts of such person.
Some courts, such as Suffolk County Probate Court in Boston, actively solicit missing heirs.[1]
Probate research companies specialize in locating missing and unknown heirs.
A missingheir is a person related to a decedent (dead person), or testator of a will, but whose residence, domicile, Post office, or other address is...
by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. The first entry, The MissingHeir, was released in 1988, followed by a prequel released the next year titled...
went by the titles The Board of MissingHeirs and Are You a MissingHeir?. Each episode of The Court of MissingHeirs featured two dramatizations of real-life...
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kidnappers. Their lives come into conflict because of a search for a missingheir. The film's title is a pun: "family plot" can refer to an area in a cemetery...
A male heir (sometimes heirs male)—usually describing the first-born son (primogeniture) or oldest surviving son of a family—has traditionally been the...
essentially an extended remake of the original show's episodes, "The MissingHeir" and "The Golden Fleecing". In the episode, Top Cat and the gang help...
Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be the missingheir to the Tichborne baronetcy. He failed to convince the courts, was convicted...
Black Beauty, "Sailor on a Horse" (1972), he played Henry Thackery, a missingheir from Canada, returning from sea, just in time to save the land and Beauty's...
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actress, perhaps best known for her work on the radio series The Court of MissingHeirs, and on the TV sitcom The Farmer's Daughter. Born in Michigan, but raised...
Benny, including "The Violin Player", "The Unscratchables" and "The MissingHeir". Benny the Ball is modeled after his voice actor Maurice Gosfield in...
(1834–1898), also known as the Tichborne Claimant, who claimed to be the missingheir Sir Roger Tichborne Paul Palaiologos Tagaris (c. 1320/40 – after 1394)...
Djarin are eventually reunited. Luke is the main character of the novel Heir to the Jedi and the junior novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker (the latter...
But when Quartermaine mechanic Charlie Prince was discovered to be the missingheir, Lawrence lost everything, and he began to woo Tracy in order to get...
describes the quest by the hero Alan Norman to find Sir Francis Crewe, the missingheir of Honeypot Hall in Crewe. The quest takes him on a satiric journey through...
with finding heirs and proving their right to an inheritance. In some estates, there may be no known heirs, or there may be missingheirs whose names are...
Heir Hunters is a BBC television programme focusing on attempts to find missing or unknown heirs, entitled to deceased people's estates before the British...
appeared in The Phil Silvers Show (Sergeant Bilko) episode Doberman, MissingHeir. Kean was married to director and producer Dick Linkroum from 1962 to...
correct formulae and phrases in order to be valid. The will had to name an heir. In addition to this, it could name a legal guardian (tutor) for underage...
List of solved missing person cases Eszterhas, Joe (March 21, 2018). "J. Paul Getty III: Exclusive 1974 Interview with Kidnapped Oil Heir". Rolling Stone...
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