life estate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Or you could set up a transfer-on-death deed or life estate.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
In return, he says he will give you $400,000, a $140,000 car and a life estate in his home.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
He will also leave me a life estate in our home.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
It cannot override a life estate, a valid prenuptial agreement or named beneficiaries.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
The tenth section gave to married men and married women a life estate in certain cases in one-third of all the real estate of which the wife or husband died seized.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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