{"id":1862,"date":"2011-10-19T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/19\/heir-versus-legatee"},"modified":"2011-10-19T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:25:00","slug":"heir-versus-legatee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/19\/heir-versus-legatee\/","title":{"rendered":"Heir versus Legatee"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a difference between an heir and a legatee. An heir is someone who, usually by statute, is entitled to a share in someone’s estate if that person leaves no valid last will and testament. A legatee is typically someone who is given property in a will.<\/p>\n

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There is a difference between an heir and a legatee. An heir is someone who, usually by statute, is entitled to a share in someone’s estate if that person leaves no valid last will and testament. A legatee is typically someone who is given property in a will. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip […]<\/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-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}