coheirs
Shared estate recipients
Coheirs are people who inherit jointly, sharing an inheritance rather than receiving it individually.
The term appears in legal contexts and biblical translations: As coheirs to the estate, the siblings had to agree on whether to sell the property.
The singular is coheir.
Those who receive advantages
- heirsThose who inherit
- legateesRecipients of bequests
- deviseesRecipients of bequeathed property
- successorsThose who follow after
inheritors · claimants · sharers · partitioners · estate · bequest · patrimony · birthright
Fellow offspring
- relativesThose connected by blood
- kinBlood-connected people
- familyRelated people together
- descendantsThose who come after
offspring · progeny · bloodline · lineage · ancestry · clan · dynasty · brothers
Will validation proceedings
- intestateHaving made no will
- testateHaving left a will
- testatorOne who makes bequests
- codicilWill modification document
executor · administrator · decedent · entailment · primogeniture · escheat · reversion · abeyance
beneficiaries
Those who receive advantages
successors · inheritors · claimants · sharers · partitioners · estate · bequest · patrimony · birthright · entitlement
siblings
Fellow offspring
descendants · offspring · progeny · bloodline · lineage · ancestry · clan · dynasty · brothers · sisters
probate
Will validation proceedings
codicil · executor · administrator · decedent · entailment · primogeniture · escheat · reversion · abeyance · dower
- heirsheirs, beneficiary, beneficiaries, successor, successors
coheirsdisinherited
Excluded from inheritance
passed over · testator · cut off · decedent · heirs apparent