probates
Authenticates legal testaments
Probates is the third-person singular verb form of probate, meaning to establish the legal validity of a will through court proceedings.
A court probates a will by confirming it as the authentic final testament of the deceased: The judge probates dozens of wills each month.
The process allows the estate to be distributed to heirs.
Appointed estate manager
- estateProperty and grounds
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- heirOne who receives legacy
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
assets · distribution · trustee · decedent · fiduciary · estate planning · liquidation · accounting
Faculty of deliberate choice
- testamentWritten proof or legacy
- testatorOne who makes bequests
- codicilWill modification document
- witnessesThose who observe events
authenticity · attestation · holographic · notarization · execution · validity · undue influence · contestation
Having made no will
- testateHaving left a will
- heirsThose who inherit
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- descentDownward slope or lineage
next of kin · per stirpes · per capita · surviving spouse · escheat · heirship · kinship · bloodline
executor
Appointed estate manager
- estateProperty and grounds
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- heirOne who receives legacy
inheritance · assets · distribution · trustee · decedent · fiduciary · estate planning · liquidation · accounting · inventory
will
Faculty of deliberate choice
witnesses · authenticity · attestation · holographic · notarization · execution · validity · undue influence · contestation · affidavit
intestate
Having made no will
- testateHaving left a will
- heirsThose who inherit
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
descent · next of kin · per stirpes · per capita · surviving spouse · escheat · heirship · kinship · bloodline · rightful heirs
- Black GreeksAlpha Kappa Alpha, AKA, DST, step show, stepping
- HBCUsHoward University, Morehouse College, Tuskegee University, Howard, Tuskegee
- on probationServing trial period
- probation officerCourt-appointed offender monitor
- probationary periodTemporary assessment phase for newcomers
- probation periodConditional employment phase
- academic probationConditional student standing for underperformance
- probation violationBreaking supervised release conditions
probation, reprobate, approbation, probate, probationary, disapprobation, reprobation, probations, probated