legal heirs
Entitled estate recipients
Legal heirs are the people entitled by law to inherit a deceased person's property when there is no valid will.
The term typically encompasses spouses, children, and other close relatives according to a jurisdiction's succession laws.
The estate was divided equally among the legal heirs.
Courts determine legal heirs when family relationships or inheritance rights are disputed.
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- bequestGift left by will
- intestacyEstateless death condition
- per stirpesDistribution by family line
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
beneficiary · probate · next of kin · blood relatives · surviving spouse · succession · testamentary · primogeniture · next in line · sons · executor · estate · children · widow · orphan · rightful · rightful claim · lineage
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heiress, bequest
- estate taxesestate tax, inheritance tax, death tax, death duty, death duties
- Islamic Inheritanceestate division, half brother, paternal uncle, female heir, male heir
- Jewish Inheritancebirthright, double portion, firstborn, primogeniture, estate division
- probateexecutor, probate court, probate, beneficiary, executors