Chapter A. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

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A. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Disclaimers. If a person is entitled to receive property by reason of a decedent's deathwhether by Will, by intestacy, as a surviving joint tenant, or as a named beneficiarythat person may decline to accept all or part of that property. The declination is technically called a "disclaimer." In order for the disclaimer to be effective and not considered as a gift from the person disclaiming the property to the recipient, the person disclaiming must not receive any benefit from the property disclaimed, and must execute a disclaimer document. The disclaimer document must be delivered to the personal representative within nine months of the decedent's date of death. The property effectively disclaimed will pass...