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TRUSTS AND ESTATES issues in this database touch upon additional database categories. Some of those additional categories are listed here in “all caps” and boldface. The specific issues described below are addressed in both the “Trusts and Estates” database category, and, as relevant, in additional categories as indicated. These entries may help in choosing the most relevant categories and keywords for searches in this area of the law,

Executors (criteria for removal, fiduciary duty, etc.);

Real Property (cotenant’s interest vest upon death, etc., REAL PROPERTY LAW);

Administrators (standing to appoint, etc.);

IRA (beneficiaries, etc.);

Parties (lawsuits, death of parties, etc., CIVIL PROCEDURE);

Promissory Estoppel;

Constructive Trust;

Fiduciary Duty (FIDUCIARY DUTY);

Undue Influence;

Riggs Doctrine:

Testamentary Capacity;

Life Support;

Vegetative State;

Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act (guardians, etc.);

Representatives (lawsuits involving estates, etc., CIVIL PROCEDURE);

Disappearance;

Wrongful Death (NEGLIGENCE);

Lost Will;

Destroyed Will;

Execution (wills, etc.);

Captions (change upon death, etc., CIVIL PROCEDURE);

Statute of Limitations (post-death toll, etc., CIVIL PROCEDURE);

Probate;

Ancillary Proceedings;

Domiciliaries;

Letters of Administration;

Nonancillary Letters;

Presumption of Revocation;

Spousal Election;

Disinterment;

Sepulcher, Right of (MUNICIPAL LAW);

Trusts;

Final Accounting;

Judicial Settlement;

Attorney’s Fees (ATTORNEYS);

Releases (CONTRACT LAW);

Beneficiaries;

Limited Liability Companies (death of member, etc., LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW)

Informal Accounting;

Indenture Trustee;

Charitable Gifts;

Tenants by the Entirety (REAL PROPERTY LAW);

Revocation;

Renunciation;

Gifts;

Workers’ Compensation Trust (WORKERS’ COMPENSATION);

Will Construction;

Life Estates;

Equitable Estoppel;

Medicaid (MEDICAID);

Fiduciary Exception (FIDUCIARY DUTY);

Constructive Fraud (FRAUD);

Letters Testamentary;

Attestation Clause;

Ademption;

Equitable Deviation;

Estates, Powers and Trusts Law (EPTL);

Remainder Interests;

Securities, Transfer on Death (SECURITIES);

Joint Bank Accounts (BANKING LAW);

Survivorship (REAL ESTATE LAW, BANKING LAW);

Banking Law (BANKING LAW);

Privity (ATTORNEYS);

Death of a Partner (PARTNERSHIP LAW);

Contingent Remainder;

Conversion.