Legal Terms Table of Contents
Abate
Abatement
Adeem
Ademption
Adjusted Gross Estate
Administration Expenses
Administrator
Administratrix
Administration
Advance Directive for Health Care
Advance Directive for Mental Health
Care
Advance Mental Care Directive
Advance Health Care Directive
Affidavit
Anatomical Gift Directive
Agent
Alternate Agent
Alternate Beneficiary
Alternate Executor
Alternate Guardian
Alternate Trustee
Anti-Lapse
Applicable Exclusion Amount
Appointee
Ascendant
Assign
Assignment
Attending Physician
Attestation Clause
Attorney
Bank
Bequest
Beneficiary
Bond
Caveat
Caveator
Charitable Organization
Charity
Codicil
Collateral Class
Collateral Heir
Community Property
Common Law Marriage
Conditional Gift
Contingent Beneficiary
Contingent Executor
Contingent Guardian
Contingent Trustee
Corpus
Custodial Property
Custodian
Death Taxes
Decedent
Declarant
Descendant
Devise
Devisee
Disclaim
Disclaimant
Disclaimer
Disclaimer Trust
Disinherit
Disinterested Witness
Distribution
Domicile
Donee
Donor
Durable Power of Attorney
Electroconvulsive Therapy
EGTRRA
Elective Share
Emancipated
End Stage Medical Condition
Entireties Property
Entity
Escheat
Estate
Execute
Executor
Executrix
Failed Testamentary Gift
Family Exemption
Federal Estate Tax
Fiduciary
Fraud
Fraud in the Execution
Fraud in the Inducement
General Distribution
General Gift
Gross Estate
Guardian
Guardian of the Estate
Guardian of the Person
Health Care
Health Care Agent
Health Care Decision
Health Care Power of Attorney
Health Care Provider
Health Care Representative
Heir
Homestead Allowance
Incapacitated
Incompetent
Inheritance
Inheritance Tax
Insurance
Intangible Personal Property
Intestacy
Intestate
Intestate Estate
Intestacy Laws
Inventory
Involuntary Commitment
Irrevocable
Irrevocable Trust
Issue
Joint Property
Joint Tenancy with the Right of Survivorship
Lapse
Legacy
Legatee
Letters
Letters of Administration
Letters Testamentary
Life Insurance
Life Sustaining Treatment
Limited Guardian
Lineal Class
Lineal Heir
Living Will
Maternal
Mental Health Care
Mental Health Care Provider
Mental Health Living Will
Mental Health Treatment
Professional
Minor
Mirror Wills
Natural Person
Non-Probate Property
Natural Objects of a
Person's Bounty
Orphans' Court
Pennsylvania Estate Tax
Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax
Pennsylvania Inheritance
Tax Rates
Paternal
Pecuniary
Penalty Clause
Per Stirpes
Permanently Unconscious
Personal Property
Personal
Representative
Plenary Guardian
Power of Appointment
Power of Attorney
Primary Agent
Primary Beneficiary
Primary Executor
Primary Guardian
Primary Trustee
Principal
Probate
Probate Estate
Proponent
Prudent Investor Rule
Real Property
Reciprocal Wills
Register of Wills
Residuary Bequest
Residuary Beneficiary
Residuary Estate
Residuary Gift
Residue
Revocable
Revocable Trust
Right of Survivorship
Self-Settled Trust
Settlor
Severely
Mentally Disabled
Short Certificates
Simultaneous Death
Slayer
Slayers Act
Sound Mind
Specific Gift
Spendthrift Trust
State of Permanent
Unconsciousness
Step-Child
Subscribing Witness
Surrogate
Survival
Survive
Tangible
Personal Property
Taxable Estate
Tenancy by the
Entireties
Tenancy in Common
Tenants in Common
Terminal Condition
Testamentary
Testamentary Gift
Testamentary Trust
Testate
Testator
Testatrix
Testamentary Capacity
Third Party Beneficiary
Contract
Trust
Trust Beneficiary
Trustee
Unclaimed Share
Undivided Ownership
Undue Influence
Uniform
Transfers to Minors Act
Unlimited
Marital Deduction
UTMA
Ward
Will
Witness