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Prompt Barney owns the land and equipment to operate Frugal Farms

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Barney owns the land and equipment to operate Frugal Farms. He has not registered his business with the secretary of state.

His wife Betty lives with him on a house on the land, but she is not a co-owner of the land and works in town at the local bank.

Barney has 2 adult children, Tex and Dakota, from a previous marriage that live in different states and have no children themselves. Barney’s parents died in a boating accident last year.

Barney dies unexpectedly in a traffic accident. Barney did not have a will.

• What type of business entity was Barney operating?
• Who are Barney’s heirs now that he has died?
• Who gets the land? What kind of co-tenancy do they have in the land? What interest does each own?
• Who gets the livestock, inventory and equipment? What interest will each get and how will they likely divide it?

Use the intestate succession statute. Note that “issue of the decedent” are children, grandchildren, etc. “Degree of kinship” is the relation to the decedent—so if they are both children of Barney, they are of the same degree of kinship to Barney.

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