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If the decedent left a will and named you as a beneficiary and you decline the bequest, most states treat the event the same as if you had predeceased him. The executor must probate the will as if you had died and were no longer available to accept your inheritance. Your bequest will then revert back to the estate.
Disclaiming means that you give up your rights to receive the inheritance. If you choose to do so, whatever assets you were meant to receive would be passed along to the next beneficiary in line.
Under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules, to refuse an inheritance, you must execute a written disclaimer that clearly expresses your "irrevocable and unqualified" intent to refuse the bequest.
If you choose to disclaim your inheritance for any reason, you will need to do so within nine months of the deceased's passing.
The legal requirements to disclaim an inheritance are minimal. A disclaimer may be effected by contract, by deed, by writing or even informally through conduct. The intended recipient of the gift need only renounce the interest, in effect, by saying I will not be the owner of it.
Section 33 operates to prevent lapse where a testator makes a gift in their will to their own children or remoter descendants. It will operate unless expressly excluded or unless a contrary intention is obvious.
The requirements for ensuring that a Will is validly executed (signed) are contained in Section 9 of the Wills Act 1837. It states that a Will must be in writing and signed by the testator in the presence of two witnesses. The two witnesses must then also sign the Will in the presence of the testator.
The Wills Act 1837 (1 Vict. c 26) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that confirms the power of every adult to dispose of their real and personal property, whether they are the outright owner or a beneficiary under a trust, by will on their death (s. 3).
Thus, for example, if a testator makes a gift to all his grandkids and one grandchild predeceases the testator, unless the will specifies otherwise, the remaining grandkids take the share of the predeceased individual.
Renouncing or Disclaiming an Inheritance Be in writing; Describe the specific property being disclaimed; Be dated within nine months of the death of the decedent, or once the beneficiary attains the age of 21; And filed with the Executor and/or Court.