Maryland Code, ESTATES AND TRUSTS 3-303
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Terms Used In Maryland Code, ESTATES AND TRUSTS 3-303
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- Personal representative: includes an administrator and an executor. See
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
(a) Property distributed pursuant to § 3-302 of this subtitle shall be paid by the personal representative from the legacies of children of the testator and issue of deceased children who take by representation.
(b) (1) Each person shall contribute in the proportion which the person’s legacy bears to all legacies of children of the testator and issue of deceased children taking by representation.
(2) Instead of contributing an interest in specific property to the pretermitted child, a legatee may pay the pretermitted child or the child’s issue, in cash or other property acceptable to the pretermitted child or the child’s issue, an amount equal to the fair market value of the interest in specific property as of the date of death of the testator.