{"id":17371,"date":"2023-12-05T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2023-12-05T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:18:19","slug":"my-heirs-and-assigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/my-heirs-and-assigns\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My Heirs and Assigns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many legal documents use the phrase &#8220;my heirs and assigns.&#8221; There is a difference between those two categories of individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My heirs are those individuals who legally will inherit my property if I leave no legal document (such as a will) giving that property to someone else. My assigns are individuals to whom I have assigned property via a legal document that I have signed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If person A dies having only had one child (call them B) and that child survived him, then that child is his heir (will or not). B&#8217;s children are not person A&#8217;s heirs when A dies as long as B is alive. A could easily, via a legal document, assign or give their property to B&#8217;s children&#8211;making those grandchildren their &#8220;assigns.&#8221; B would still be the heir to whatever property had not been assigned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many legal documents use the phrase &#8220;my heirs and assigns.&#8221; There is a difference between those two categories of individuals. My heirs are those individuals who legally will inherit my property if I leave no legal document (such as a will) giving that property to someone else. My assigns are individuals to whom I have [&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-17371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371","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=17371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}