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life estate

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noun

  1. property that may be held only for the extent of the holder's lifetime

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Don’t miss: ‘People are often unreasonable’: My husband, 62, gave me a 5-year life estate.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

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

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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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