{"id":441,"date":"2017-06-14T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:00","slug":"will-leaving-land-to-surviving-heirs-of-the-decedents-child-creates-a-life-estate-in-the-child-with-remainder-in-the-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2017\/06\/14\/will-leaving-land-to-surviving-heirs-of-the-decedents-child-creates-a-life-estate-in-the-child-with-remainder-in-the-heirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Will leaving land to surviving heirs of the decedent&#8217;s child creates a life estate in the child with remainder in the heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Georgia Supreme Court has interpreted a will leaving land to the &#8220;surviving heir or heirs&#8221; of the decedent&#8217;s child as creating a life estate in the child with a contingent remainder in the child&#8217;s heirs.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gasupreme.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/s16a1052.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson v. Anderson,<\/a>\u00a0791 S.E. 2d 40 (Ga. 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/title-issues\/\" rel=\"tag\">Title Issues<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Supreme Court has interpreted a will leaving land to the &#8220;surviving heir or heirs&#8221; of the decedent&#8217;s child as creating a life estate in the child with a contingent remainder in the child&#8217;s heirs.\u00a0Anderson v. Anderson,\u00a0791 S.E. 2d 40 (Ga. 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-and-future-interests","category-real-estate-transactions","category-title-issues"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}