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Half-Blood Relations: Mississippi
A half-blood relation is any person related
to you by just one common ancestor, when he or she could
otherwise be related to you by two common ancestors. The
same designation applies to any two people at the same level of
relation to one another (cousin, aunt, etc.) who could be
related by two common ancestors, but are not.
Mississippi's
intestacy laws have a unique
set of instructions for the treatment of half-blood relations:
half-siblings, half-nieces, and half-nephews are treated exactly
the same as whole blood relations at the same level.
Beginning with aunts and uncles, half-blood relations do not
receive any of the intestate estate if there are any whole blood
relations at the same level of relation.
From this point forward when using the
Mississippi
Intestacy Calculator™, if any class of relatives has both
whole and half-blood relations, exclude the half-blood relations
when entering the number of people who living. If,
however, there are only half-blood relations at any particular
class of relative, you will include them all when entering the
number of people.
For example, you have two whole blood aunts,
one whole blood uncle, and one half-aunt: You will answer "3" as
the number of living aunts and uncles, excluding the half-aunt.
If the one half-aunt was the only living relation this level,
she is entitled to a portion of the intestate estate: You will
answer "1" as the number of living aunts and uncles.
The following definitions provide some
understanding of half-blood relations, but the 'split' between
whole and half-blood relation may have occurred at a more
distant relation than the half-blood relation's own parents.
Half-Aunt / Half-Uncle
Any person who shares just one common parent
with your parent. (If your grandmother had a child with
anyone other than your grandfather, that child is your half-aunt
or half-uncle. The same applies if your grandfather had a
child with anyone other than your grandmother.)
Half-Great-Aunt / Half-Great-Uncle
Any person who shares just one common parent
with one of your grandparents. (If your great-grandmother
had a child with anyone other than your great-grandfather, that
child is your half-great-aunt or half-great-uncle. The
same applies if your great-grandfather had a child with anyone
other than your great-grandmother.)
Half-Great-Great-Aunt /
Half-Great-Great-Uncle
Any person who shares just one common parent
with one of your great-grandparents. (If your
great-great-grandmother had a child with anyone other than your
great-great-grandfather, that child is your
half-great-great-aunt or half-great-great-uncle. The same
applies if your great-great-grandfather had a child with anyone
other than your great-great-grandmother.)
Half-Cousin
Any person who has a parent that is your
half-aunt or half-uncle.
Half-Second Cousin
Any person who has a parent that is your
half-blood great-aunt or half-blood great-uncle.
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