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.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
A
- Administer the Estate
- Administrative Expenses
- Administrator
- Administrators Deed
- Adult Protective Services
- Advance Directive
- Advance Health Care Directive
- Affidavit
- Affidavit of Death of Joint Tenant
- Annuity
- Appraisal
- Appraiser
- Assets
- Attested Will
- Authorities
- Autopsy
B
- Bankruptcy Attorneys
- Beneficiaries
- Bereaved
- Bereavement
- Best interests of the child
- Birth Certificate
- Burial
- Burial Plot
- Business Attorney
C
- Casket
- Cemetery
- Certified Copy of a Death Certificate
- Certified Public Accountant
- Child Protective Services
- Clinical Autopsy
- Coach
- Columbaria
- Community Property Laws
- Community Property State
- Consular Report of Death of a US Citizen Abroad
- Coping
- Coroner
- Credit
- Creditors
- Credit Report
- Credit Report Agency
- Cremation
- Crematorium
- Cremulator
- Crypt
D
- Date-of-Death Value
- Death Benefits
- Death Certificate
- Death Notice
- Debt
- Debtor
- Decedent
- Decree of Distribution
- Deed
- Deed of Distribution
- Dependents
- Disposition
- Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
- Durable Power of Attorney (DOA)
E
- Early Beneficiary Distribution
- Embalming
- Employee Identification Number
- Endowment Care
- Entomb
- Epitaph
- Estate
- Estate Account
- Estate Accountant
- Estate Administrator
- Estate Attorney
- Estate Bond
- Estate Income Tax
- Estate Plan
- Estate Sale
- Estate Settlement
- Estate Tax
- Eulogizer
- Eulogy
- Execute the Will
- Executor
- Executor Bond
- Executor Fee
- Executor of Estate
- Executor of the Will
- Executors Deed
- Ex Parte for Final Discharge and Order
F
- Fair Market Value
- Family Allowance
- Family Court
- Fiduciary
- Fiduciary Bond
- Fiduciary Tax Return
- Filial Responsibility Laws
- Final Disposition
- Financial Power of Attorney
- Forensic Autopsy
- Funeral
- Funeral Announcement
- Funeral Director
- Funeral Home
- Funeral Loan
- Funeral Procession
- Funeral Program
- Funeral Rule
- Funeral Service
G
- General Price List
- Gift Tax
- Grantee
- Grantor
- Grave
- Graveside Service
- Gravesite
- Gravestone
- Green Burial
- Grief
- Guardianship
- Guardianship Attorney
H
- Handwritten Will
- Headstone
- Health Care Agent
- Health Care Proxy
- Hearse
- Heir
- Holographic Will
- Honorarium
- Hospice
I
- Immigration Attorney
- Informal Probate
- Inheritance
- Inheritance Rights
- Inheritance Tax
- Inheritor
- In-Network Providers
- Inpatient Facility
- Insolvent
- Interment
- Intestacy
- Intestate Succession
- Inventory
- Inventory Form
- Irrevocable Trust
- IRS Form 1041
- IRS Form 1310
- IRS Form 4506
- IRS Form 4810
- IRS Form 56
- IRS Form 706
- IRS Form 709
- IRS Form Schedule K-1
J
K
L
- Last Will and Testament
- Legal Guardian
- Letters of Administration
- Letters of Testamentary
- Liabilities
- Life Insurance
- Living Trust
- Living Will
- Lump Sum
M
- Marker
- Mausoleum
- Medicaid
- Medical Autopsy
- Medical Examiner
- Medical Power of Attorney
- Medicare
- Memorial Program
- Memorial Service
- Memorial Website
- Morgue
- Mortician
- Mortuary
- Mourning
N
O
- Obituary
- Officiant
- Open Casket Ceremony
- Opening and Closing Fee
- Order of Service
- Order on Final Distribution
- Out-of-Network Providers
- Outpatient Facilities
P
- Payable-On-Death
- Pension
- Personal Representative
- Petition for Discharge
- Petition for Final Distribution
- Petition for Probate
- Petition for Probate of Will
- Pet Trust
- 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
Q
R
S
- Safe Deposit Box
- Secured Debt
- Settle the Estate
- Settlor
- Shiva
- Small Estate Affidavit
- Small Estate Probate
- Social Security
- Social Security Administration
- Social Security Death Benefit
- Successor Executor
- Successor Trustee
- Summary Probate
- Surety
- Surety Bond
- Surviving Family
- Survivorship Rights
- Sympathy Gift
