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"The estate will actually be probated in accordance with intestate succession laws and the children would be lawfully next in line to inherit," he said.

He was concerned that if he died intestate, his proprieties would not be passed to Li.

Most states have laws covering how an estate should be divided when a person dies “intestate,” meaning without a will, as the vast majority of Americans do, Rubenstein said.

If you don’t have a will — called “dying intestate” — your assets are distributed by a probate court according to your state’s laws of intestacy.

Making a will that honored my love for them felt overwhelmingly complicated, especially when “intestate succession” laws, which govern inheritance if a person dies without a will, stop at relatives by blood, adoption or marriage.