inherited property
Passed-down assets
Inherited property is real estate, money, or other assets received from someone who has died, typically through a will or estate succession.
The term appears frequently in legal and tax contexts, where inherited property may receive different treatment than purchased assets: The inherited property came with a stepped-up cost basis.
In programming, inherited property refers to attributes a software object receives from its parent class.
- family estateInherited ancestral property
- estateProperty and grounds
- bequestGift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
- last willPosthumous asset instructions
will · heir · birthright · passing down · ancestral · deed · trust · trust fund · beneficiary · next of kin · land · homestead · manor · fortune · patrimony · endowment · entail · probate
- propertyland, ownership, house, home, lot
- inheritanceheir, heirs, bequest, bequests, beneficiary
- ownershipssole ownership, joint ownership, co-ownership, home ownership, land ownership
- marital propertymarital assets, prenuptial agreements, prenup, marriage settlement, marriage settlements
- marital financemarital assets, asset division, divorce settlement, spousal support, alimony
inherited propertyearned income
Pay from work
wages · salary · business earnings · investment returns · savings
inherit, inherited, inheriting, inherits, inheritance, inheritances, inheritor, inheritors, inheritable