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Court Holds That A Wife Devised Her Property In Fee Simple Determinable To Her Husband With An Executory Interest To Her Son; So, After The Husband Died, If He Still Owned The ...

In In re Estate of Hernandez, the issue in the case was whether clauses in a will conveyed a life estate to the decedent’s husband. No. 05-16-01350-CV, 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 755 (Tex. App.—Dallas ...
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How Does a Fee Simple Defeasible Estate Work in Real Estate?

A fee simple defeasible estate is a type of property ownership in which the owner holds title to the property with specific conditions or limitations. Fee simple defeasible estates are common in real ...
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Court of Appeals of Virginia Determines Will Creates Determinable Life Estate with a Contingent Fee Simple Subject to a Condition Precedent and no Remainder Interest

On Tuesday, in Brown v. Johnson, Record No. 0491-23-4 (Ct. App. Va. April 16, 2024), available here, the Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed a decision from the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, ...
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What Is a Fee Simple Absolute Ownership in Real Estate?

Fee simple absolute is a type of property ownership that grants the owner full rights to use, sell, lease, or transfer the property without restrictions. It remains in effect indefinitely unless ...
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What does fee simple mean?

Fee simple is a term used in real estate to describe when an owner has complete legal ownership over a designated area of land and all properties that sit on that land. This is the highest form of ...