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What is the difference between an heir and a beneficiary?

April 26, 2017Beneficiary heir

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What is the difference between an heir and a beneficiary?

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An heir is a person entitled by the state’s intestate statutes to receive a deceased person’s property when the deceased person died without a will. A beneficiary is a person named in a deceased person’s will.