{"id":12474,"date":"2020-11-08T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2020-11-08T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T15:37:42","slug":"get-the-real-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/get-the-real-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the Real Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m reading an academic work on slaveholders and it mentions the phrase &#8220;life estate&#8221; and indicated that someone who was given a life estate in something could hold it during their lifetime and it would go to their children afterwards.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If an individual has a life estate in something they can use it during their life time but they cannot transfer it to someone else, encumber the title, &#8220;waste&#8221; it, etc. They have it for the duration of their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But after their death it may or may not go to their children. If A gives B a life estate in property, A can indicate what happens to that property after B dies. A can indicate it goes to B&#8217;s children or that it goes to someone else. It does not <em>have <\/em>to go to their children&#8211;A can decide what happens to it when it sets up the life estate for B and grants B a life estate in the property. A could say that it goes to B&#8217;s children upon B&#8217;s death or that it goes to someone entirely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t assume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading an academic work on slaveholders and it mentions the phrase &#8220;life estate&#8221; and indicated that someone who was given a life estate in something could hold it during their lifetime and it would go to their children afterwards. If an individual has a life estate in something they can use it during their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}