A man, in certain cases, may make a valid will by word of mouth only.

"First, and most important, my client prepared a valid will.

Intestacy means the status of not having made a will, or to have died without a valid will.

Holographic wills often show that the requirements for making a valid will are minimal.

Is it your opinion today that he had sufficient mental capacity to execute a valid will?"

Some courts have held that a person who lacked the capacity to make a contract can nevertheless make a valid will.

If it's one day found that he died with no valid will, then his children, all seven of them, will share equally in his estate.

Crazy as a bat, but one clear, lucid interval in the midst of the madness, and a person can execute a valid will.

The most common cover the two most common situations-either the deceased died leaving a valid will or they did not.

If someone left a valid will, it is more than likely that the grant is a grant of probate.

But Mrs. King contends that the letter is not, by Massachusetts law, a valid will and testament.

Intestate - person who has not created a will, or who does not have a valid will at the time of death.

Testate succession covers those rules which apply if the deceased left behind a legally valid will to determine who would inherit his assets.

In the common law tradition, testamentary capacity is the legal term of art used to describe a person's legal and mental ability to make or alter a valid will.

Section 1 makes if clear that a soldier on active service or sailor at sea, can make, and always could have made, a valid will, even though under 18 years of age.

A minor cannot hold land, and therefore cannot create a trust of land; in addition, unless they are soldiers or "mariners at sea", they cannot form a valid will.

The Jackson family filed a preemptive probate action in the Los Angeles Superior Court, based on the allegation that Jackson died "intestate," without a valid will.

Now he was holding a valid will that, in a few hasty paragraphs, transferred one of the world's great fortunes to an unknown heiress, without the slightest hint of estate planning.

They are planning to file a motion in the next two weeks accusing Bruce Sobol of destroying a suicide note that they contend qualifies under Pennsylvania law as a valid will.

Various rules grew up around the formalities necessary to create a valid will and the Statute of Frauds (1677) created the requirement that a will of real property must be in writing.

If there is no valid will, they must distribute the estate according to the 'rules of intestacy', that is, the rules of inheritance that apply where there is no will.

In that case the court ruled that state estate laws trumped a federal statute concerning the property of U.S. Veterans who died at Veterans Administration hospitals without a valid will.

Intestacy is the condition of the estate of a person who dies owning property greater than the sum of their enforceable debts and funeral expenses without having made a valid will or other binding declaration.

The capacity of both natural and legal persons determines whether they may make binding amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting married or merging, entering into contracts, making gifts, or writing a valid will.

Or, because Daniel is deceased, Dannielynn could receive the inheritance on the argument that Ms. Smith died without a valid will, Mr. Tritt said, adding that it could take "forever" before anything was decided.