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To summarize, the executor does not automatically have to disclose accounting to beneficiaries. However, if the beneficiaries request this information from the executor, it is the executor's responsibility to provide it. In most cases, the executor will provide informal accounting to the beneficiaries.
The choices depend upon your individual circumstances. Bequests are assets given in a will or a trust. A bequest might be a specific amount of money or assets, a percentage of those assets, or what is left over after heirs and other obligations are paid from an estate.
Traditionally, a devise referred to a gift by will of real property. The beneficiary of a devise is called a devisee. In contrast, a bequest referred to a gift by will of personal property or any other property that is not real property.
A gift given by means of the will of a decedent of an interest in real property.
Modern per stirpes is the default option in the law of Virginia and many other states. If a person dies as a resident of Virginia without a will or trust, that person's property is allocated among his or her descendants by the modern per stirpes method.
Virginia's laws of intestate succession state that when a person dies leaving a spouse and children, one-third of the person's assets pass to the spouse and two-thirds of the person's assets pass to the children. If a person does not have any children, all of the assets pass to the spouse.
A bequest is the act of leaving property to a loved one through your Will. An inheritance describes the property itself, as well as the rights an individual has to property after your passing. In other words, a bequest is more about you, and the inheritance is more about your beneficiary on the receiving end.
Generally, estates cannot realistically close before six months after the decedent's death because the surviving spouse has the right to make her claim for an elective share within that six months.
1 : to give or leave by will (see will entry 2 sense 1) used especially of personal property a ring bequeathed to her by her grandmother. 2 : to hand down : transmit lessons bequeathed to future generations.
Estates that include no real property and $50,000 or less in personal property are considered small estates, according to Virginia inheritance laws. These estates can avoid any sort of probate proceeding, as long as at least 60 days have passed since the individual's death.