heir
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Your brother has an easier job here; he just has to stand firm, and provide you with the documents showing that he is the sole heir.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Just like when peanut butter sales go up,” the chicken-finger heir nodded solemnly.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
That tension runs through “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s hit documentary about Holmes and her longtime partner, Billy Evans, an heir to a wealthy San Diego hotel family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Young Arthur was dead, his father was a witness, Ferris was regarded by the police as the heir apparent to Arthur Thompson Sr.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Blossom was the niece and sole heir to an unmarried earl.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
They also come into play for people who going to leave the money in those accounts to heirs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Yet now, 10 years in, the movement’s heirs may not call themselves neoperreo at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Cumbria Connect is part of a scheme paid for by the Arcadia Fund which was co-founded by one of the heirs to the Tetra Pak fortune.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Inheritance taxes are levied on inheritors, so his kids or other heirs would pay the bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Hidden among her guests, the judge studied the two people standing off in the corner, the only pair in Sunset Towers who were not Westing heirs.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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