per stirpes
- A method in estate planning ensuring inheritance by a deceased beneficiary's children when their parent predeceases the will maker
- If inheritance is decided per stirpes, then the grandchildren carry the right of representation for their parent.
- In a per stirpes inheritance, the distribution takes place equally among the grandchildren if their parent, who was an original beneficiary, is no longer alive.
- Per stirpes inheritance assures that offspring of deceased beneficiaries do not lose their inherited stakes.
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