Can you disinherit a parent?

Cite?

“Fundamentals of Estate Planning” 2nd edition published by The American College ISBN # 1-577996-0

Page 1-5 paragraph 2.

I’m corrected by it only being 9 states instead of 11.

When I refered to common law I meant community property common law.

you guys make me happy ;j

This doesn’t make sense. Community property is not a common law concept. Rather the opposite, in that community property is established by statute in every state that I’m aware of.

Your cite addresses two concepts, ASAIK correctly. 1) The **majority **of states base their law on common law, rather than civil law. (Not 9 or 11.)

  1. There are 9 community property states.
    The two statements in your source are separate. The second group (community property) is not set forth as a subset of the first (common law states).