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stories abound now of law enforcement solving cold
cases
by cross-referencing suspects to relative's DNA in
databases
such as 23AndMe and Ancestry.
Occurs to me that with abandoned bank accounts and
heirless deaths, these sites are leaving tons of money on
the table by failing to aggressively
market that you could
be
due money from your provable long lost relatives.
In other words 23AndMe could market that if you're in
their
database and a proven relative's bank account has made
it
to those newspaper listings of abandoned accounts or the
state is about to benefit from an estate that does not
have
any known descendants, they would make the connection
and get a piece of the pie.
Legal Zoom on the matter
https://www.legalzo...part-of-your-estate
[theircompetitor, May 06 2019]
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This is not a bad idea. In fact it's a good idea. One problem is
that the deceased would have to have had their genome
sequenced, but that will become increasingly commonplace.
Of course, you could always sequence the deceased post-
mortem (or even from artefacts left behind), but I can see
that being a bit of a legal nightmare. |
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I'm seeing court orders to dig up bodies to get DNA info. |
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TC, you should start a law firm specializing in this. |
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I also see examples of this estate law test going all the
way to the Supreme Court. |
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As you can see by my double spacing each line I feel very
strongly about this. |
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One question - how close a relative do you have to be in order
to inherit without a will? In the UK, I know that a spouse
automatically inherits if there's no will, but beyond that I
don't know. |
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I mean, technically, I'm related to everybody else if you go
back enough generations. I'm probably a fifth-removed cousin
of [doc], for instance. |
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well, [MB] I don't think we'd go back to Genghis Khan,
although I hear if that fortune's ever found, there'd be a lot
of claimants under this scheme. |
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But I'm thinking even if you had to share it with a dozen
"cousins", it's still better than the state getting it. So I
would say at least anyone recognized as <= 3rd cousin,
which takes you several great grandparents out. |
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Being half Ukrainian I've definitely got some Mongol blood,
as verified by DNA testing. Whether or not it's the Genghster
himself I don't know, but Mongolians "dated" extensively in
that area. |
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Other half is supposedly from William Wallace's clan. Again,
not sure if I'm related to Big Bad Bill himself, but having a
lineage that's a cross between Genghis Khan and William
Wallace might explain my sparkling personality. |
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//even if you had to share it with a dozen "cousins"// Yes, but
my question was whether the dozen cousins would inherit.
Automatic inheritance can apply to spouses and children (and
perhaps siblings), but does it apply to distant relatives? |
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Government's answer: No, it's ours. |
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Break it down by family tree. First in line gets 100%,
second branches split according to genetic percentage. |
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Of course if you're talking about taking property away
from living folks and re-distributing it, that opens up a
whole new batch of issues, but if it's unclaimed like the
idea suggests, I would think you have a claim you could
make now with current laws. |
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DNA tests are no joke, people are going to prison because
of them. There's no reason why other legal issues such as
estate inheritance couldn't be dealt with using that
technology. |
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This really is a very clever idea. |
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I think even in our Orwellian times, next of kin is next of
kin. I think for the government to deny such a claim, it'd
have to show that the relatedness is equal to general
population. If you're a demonstrable 3rd or 4th cousin, I
don't see how they can beat that. |
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I smell a docudrama in the making... |
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This is sort of going on with "the artist formerly known as Prince's" estate.
Folks lining up to get tested. |
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//If you're a demonstrable 3rd or 4th cousin, I don't see how
they can beat that.// |
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Well, they can beat it pretty easily by saying that 3rd or 4th
cousins don't inherit unless the will says so. However, if the
current law allows "the closest known relative" to inherit in
the absence of a will, then you're OK. |
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It's just that I don't know what the current law is on
intestacy, especially in the US. |
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I don't know what the current law is on any intestinal disease, especially in Mozambique. |
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