Modified per stirpes - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

Modified per stirpes is a system of determining the descendants that will take from individuals who have died intestate.�Any part of the intestate estate not passing to the decedent�s surviving spouse is passed to the descendants of the decedent.�In the modified per stirpes system, the estate is divided into primary shares at the generation nearest to the decedent that contains at least one living member.�Thus, if all of the decedent�s children are dead, but at least one grandchild is alive, the primary shares are determined at the grandchildren generation rather than the children generation.�If a person from the �primary share� generation has predeceased the decedent, that one primary share is further divided by the number of people at the next generation.