Define escheat.

What will be an ideal response?


o When a person dies without a surviving spouse, children, parents, siblings, or any other ascertainable kin, that person’s estate will default to the state in which the person was domiciled at the time of death.

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Most states today still retain dower and curtesy.?

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Corporate clients realize that the cost of ________ is a significant part of a cost/benefit analysis, used to determine a settlement offer, perhaps surpassed only by the actual trial.

A) Pleadings B) Discovery C) Filing D) Service of process

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How is a principal-agent relationship created?

What will be an ideal response?

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A requestthat asks a party to admit in a single statement the truthfulness of two or more facts is called a/an                     .

A. inadmissiblerequest B. compound request C. common interest request D. irrelevantrequest

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