Florida Intestate Succession Laws: Did Your Favorite Celebrity Die Without a Will?

Do celebrities die without a will? Is this in the best interest of their estate heirs and beneficiaries? Who inheritswhen you die without a will in Palm Beach or Delray Beach? What are intestate succession laws? When are intestacy laws used? Intestate rules are default rules that are considered when a person dies without a will. 

Intestate Succession in Palm Beach Litigation

• Who inherits under intestate succession in Florida?
• Trust and estate litigators West Palm Beach know that it all depends on whether the person who dies without a will has a spouse, children, parents or other close relatives at the time of their death.
• If you have children but no spouse, the children inherit everything.
• If you have a spouse but no children the spouse inherits everything.
• If you have a spouse, children from you and the spouse and the spouse has no other children, spouse inherits everything.
• If you have a spouse and descendants from you and that spouse, and the spouse has descendants from another relationship, your assets will be divided between yourspouse and descendants equally.
• If you have a spouse and descendants from you and someone other than that spouse, your assets will be divided between your spouse and descendants equally.
• If you have parents but no spouse or descendants, your parents inherit everything.
• If you have siblings but no spouse, descendants or parents, your siblings inherit everything.
• Florida litigators know that creating a will can be in your best interest as it allows you to designate who gets what. 
• Estate planning attorneys Palm Beach Gardens can help you to conveniently and affordably set up an estate plan.

Which of your favorite celebrities died without a will?

• Some people, including celebrities, fail to create a will.
• This forces their Florida estates and assets to be distributed according to intestate succession laws.
• Did your favorite celebrities die without a will?
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