: the quality or state of being or dying intestate
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Your assets will be distributed according to your state’s intestacy laws.—True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 Some individuals are aware of the negative consequences of intestacy and have drafted several wills but for many reasons never actually signed any.—Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 The district judge, magistrate judge and administrative law judge concluded that, under Florida law, a child conceived after the father’s death, could inherit property only through a will and not intestacy, according to the appeals court.—Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022 The failures of intestacy laws reveal the limits in how our legal system characterizes the family unit.—Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
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