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laughing heir wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 jurisdictions with no laughing heir statute toggle jurisdictions with no laughing heir statute subsection 1 1 africa 1 2 north america 2 jurisdictions with a laughing heir statute toggle jurisdictions with a laughing heir statute subsection 2 1 north america 3 references 4 external links toggle the table of contents laughing heir add languages add links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia part of a series on inheritance part of the common law series wills legal history of wills joint wills and mutual wills will contract codicil holographic will oral will attestation clause residuary clause incorporation by reference contest testamentary capacity undue influence insane delusion fraud no contest clause lapse and anti lapse ademption abatement satisfaction of legacies acts of independent significance elective share pretermitted heir intestacy intestate succession laughing heir simultaneous death slayer rule advancement forced heirship disclaimer of interest trusts in inheritance testamentary life insurance spendthrift special needs supplemental needs blind trust totten trust pour over will cy près doctrine estate administration estate planning testator probate power of appointment inheritance tax related topics advance directive living will law portal outline lists index category v t e in the law of inheritance a laughing heir is an heir who is legally entitled to inherit the property of a person who has died even though that heir is only distantly related to the deceased and therefore has no personal connection or reason to feel bereaved over the death in most jurisdictions the law of intestacy requires that the property of a person who died without leaving a will must first go to that person s immediate family such as a spouse descendants ascendants or persons descended from the same parents or grandparents under the common law if no such persons exist the property passes to the nearest living person who can demonstrate some degree of kinship with the deceased no matter how distant the relation some jurisdictions have a laughing heir statute which cuts off the right of inheritance when the remaining relatives become too remote in such jurisdictions if no relative falls within the limitation set by the statute then the property escheats to the state in the united states 2 103 of the uniform probate code which has been adopted by a number of states sets the outer limits of the right to inheritance with grandparents aunts and uncles and first cousins under the code heirs that are farther removed from the deceased are left with no claim to the estate at all by contrast some us states such as virginia have extended the principle to cover the family of a predeceased spouse in those states if the decedent had been married and their spouse had died before the decedent and if the decedent had no blood relatives at all then the decedent s property would pass to any living relatives of the spouse no matter how remote jurisdictions with no laughing heir statute edit africa edit south africa north america edit kentucky 1 virginia also extends inheritance rights to relatives of a predeceased spouse until 2013 texas had no laughing heir statute instead allowing estates to pass to the nearest lineal ancestors or descendants without end 2 texas passed such a law hb 2912 in 2013 and thereafter following the uniform probate code jurisdictions with a laughing heir statute edit north america edit alabama cuts off inheritance with descendants of the grandparents of the deceased florida extends inheritance rights to relatives of a predeceased spouse up two grandparents descendants after cutting off the inheritance of the decedent with the descendants of the grandparents of the deceased however for holocaust survivors the descendants of a decedent s great grandparent may inherit fla stat 732 103 north carolina extends intestate inheritance out to five degrees of a kinship if they exist if no kin within five degrees of kinship exist then it extends indefinitely in an attempt to prevent the estate from escheating nc general statute 29 7 references edit kentucky revised statutes 391 010 archived 2013 06 07 at the wayback machine real estate 391 030 archived 2013 06 07 at the wayback machine personal property http www statutes legis state tx us docs pb htm pb ii htm 38 archived 2011 10 31 at the wayback machine texas probate code chapter ii section 38 a 4 the operative phrase which differs from the uniform probate code and thus allows for a potential laughing heir is i f there be no surviving grandfather or grandmother then the whole of such estate shall go to their descendants and so on without end passing in like manner to the nearest lineal ancestors and their descendants emphasis added external links edit quizlaw page listing links to probate codes of all 50 states retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title laughing_heir oldid 1308888479 categories wills and trusts inheritance hidden category webarchive template wayback links this page was last edited on 1 september 2025 at 01 47 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree 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