sole heir
Gets everything alone
A sole heir is the only person entitled to inherit from someone who has died.
Where multiple heirs would divide an estate, a sole heir receives everything: As the sole heir, she inherited the entire fortune.
The phrase appears in legal contexts and in narratives about family wealth and succession.
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- next of kinNearest living family members
- blood relativeFamily by biological descent
- legacyWhat's passed down
- estateProperty and grounds
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- beneficiariesbeneficiary, legatee, devisee, annuitant
- heirscoheirs, beneficiary, beneficiaries, successor, successors
- birth orderfirstborn, lastborn, middle child, only child, eldest