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I hope there is enough to go around for the child of the deceased child of the deceased child of the deceased mother who according to my calculations gets 8.3333%. I had an estate with similar circumstances except the estate had multiple children of deceased
multiple children. I think the smallest percentage was 3%. Good luck.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">Just double-checking intestacy statute, 11.04.015(2)(a), under following fact scenario:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">Mother (Sally) died intestate, leaving three surviving children, but with a fourth child having pre-deceased
Mother (Sally). The pre-deceased child left three (3) children, all of whom survived Mother (Sally), their Grandmother.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">Distribution is 25% to each of the three children who survived Mother (Sally). The fourth 25% share is equally
divided between the three (3) children of Mother (Sally)’s pre-deceased child, who survived Mother (Sally). [Under this scenario, assume that Mother (Sally)’s deceased child had only three (3) children, all of whom survived Mother (Sally).]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">Is that a correct recitation of the statute?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">A wrinkle in the above fact scenario. Assume one of the grandchildren of Mother (Sally) - who is child of
Mother (Sally)’s deceased child - has also not survived Mother (Sally), but has left a child surviving him/her, will that great-grandchild now receive his/her parent’s one-third of the 25% share that that deceased child would have received, if he/she had survived
Mother (Sally)?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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