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On January 13, 2022, the Court of Appeals provided an excellent illustration of intestate succession when it decided In the Estate of Dougherty. In doing so, the Court also clarified when an adopted person may inherit through their birth parents. While this decision does not provide some new, earth-shattering precedent, it does hammer down Arizona’s intestate succession procedure when the decedent’s descendants are the only surviving heirs.

When someone dies without a will, or other estate plan, that person has died “intestate.” Intestate succession is the statutory process for distributing an intestate decedent’s estate. Arizona has a comprehensive intestate succession

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