Glossary

Many of the terms used while managing life after a death are uncommon or difficult to understand.

Below are brief definitions for some of the most typically used.

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Administrator
Administrators Deed
Advance Health Care Directive
Affidavit
Affidavit of Death of Joint Tenant
Annuity
Appraisal
Appraiser
Assets
Attested Will
Autopsy
Beneficiaries
Bereaved
Bereavement
Burial
Casket
Cemetery
Clinical Autopsy
Community Property Laws
Community Property State
Consular Report of Death of a US Citizen Abroad
Coping
Coroner
Credits
Credit Report
Credit Report Agency
Creditors
Cremation
Crematorium
Date-of-Death Value
Death Certificate
Death Notice
Debt
Decedent
Decree of Distribution
Deed
Deed of Distribution
Dependents
Disposition
Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
Durable Power of Attorney (DOA)
Early Beneficiary Distribution
Employee Identification Number (EIN)
Embalming
Endowment Care
Estate
Estate Account
Estate Accountant
Estate Administrator
Estate Attorney
Estate Bond
Estate Income Tax
Estate Plan
Estate Sale
Estate Settlement
Estate Tax
Eulogy
Ex Parte for Final Discharge and Order
Executor
Executor Bond
Executors Deed
Executor Fee
Executor of the Will
Execute the Will
Fair Market Value
Family Allowance
Fiduciary
Fiduciary Bond
Fiduciary Tax Return
Final Disposition
Financial Power of Attorney
Forensic Autopsy
Funeral
Funeral Announcement
Funeral Director
Funeral Home
Funeral Procession
Funeral Program
Funeral Rule
Funeral Service
General Price List
Gift Tax
Grantor
Grave
Graveside Service
Green Burial
Grief
Hearse
Headstone
Heir
Holographic Will
Honorarium
Health Care Agent
In-Network Providers
Informal Probate
Inheritance
Inheritance Rights
Inheritance Tax
Inheritor
Inpatient Facility
Insolvent
Inter
Intestacy
Intestate Succession
Inventory
Inventory Form
Irrevocable Trust
IRS Form 56
IRS Form 706
IRS Form 709
IRS Form 1041
IRS Form 1310
IRS Form 4506
IRS Form 4810
IRS Form Schedule K-1
Judgment of Final Distribution
Known Shipper
Last Will and Testament
Letters of Administration
Letters of Testamentary
Life Insurance
Living Trust
Living Will
Marker
Medicaid
Medical Examiner
Medical Power of Attorney
Medicare
Memorial Service
Memorial Website
Morgue
Mortician
Mortuary
Mourning
Negative Coping
Next of Kin
Non-Probate Assets
Obituary
Officiant
Opening and Closing Fee
Order on Final Distribution
Out-of-Network Providers
Outpatient Facilities
Payable-On-Death
Pension
Personal Representative
Petition
Petition for Discharge
Petition for Final Distribution
Petition for Probate of Will
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
Power of Attorney
Preliminary Change of Ownership Report
Preliminary Distribution
Probate
Probate Assets
Probate Attorney
Probate Bond
Probate Court
Probate Loan
Pronouncement of Death
Receipt for a Disbursement
Receipt for a Distribution
Revocable Trust
Secured Debt
Settlor
Shiva
Small Estate Probate
Social Security
Social Security Death Benefit
Successor Executor
Summary Probate
Surety Bond
Survivorship Rights
Sympathy Gift
Testacy
Testamentary Trust
Testator
Title
Transfer-On-Death
Trust
Trustee
Trustor
Uniform Probate Code
Unsecured debt
Urn
Viewing
Vigil
Wake
Will