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Per stirpes means “per branch.” The phrase is often used in wills and other estate records to indicate how property is to be divided if some beneficiaries pre-decease the original writer of the will or owner of the property. A relative has three children and in their will gives their estate to their children or to their children’s descendants per stirpes. Let’s say the relative, named A has three children, B, C, and D. B has two children, C has three children, and D has four children. A dies and B, C, and D have already passed. All the grandchildren of A are living when they die. B, C, and D, had they been living, would have each received 1/3 of A’s estate. That’s how much each group […]