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Choosing a fiscal year can allow the executor to match income and expenses more logically and simplify the process of closing out the decedent’s final financial matters.
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Days after a human skull and bones washed ashore on a beach in Palos Verdes Estates, authorities are still trying to identify the decedent and the cause of death, officials said.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Other records include maps, old photographs, funeral home records and even death certificates, which can list the decedent’s parents.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
Any adult person in the next degree of kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the decedent.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Mar. 2024
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Days after a human skull and bones washed ashore on a beach in Palos Verdes Estates, authorities are still trying to identify the decedent and the cause of death, officials said.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Other records include maps, old photographs, funeral home records and even death certificates, which can list the decedent’s parents.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
Any adult person in the next degree of kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the decedent.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Decedent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decedent. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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