Legal succession - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

Legal succession is the inheriting of an estate�i.e. the property a person leaves behind after they die�in a manner defined by the law, absent any testamentary desires�i.e. a will. For example, intestate succession�i.e. determining who inherits the estate when the decedent dies without a will�is legal succession because the law determines who inherits. In California, for example, Probate Code � 6402 provides that, in intestate succession, any surviving� spouse inherits the estate; if there is no surviving spouse, then the decedent�s parents inherit the estate; and so forth.