Business Law- Estate & family law

A promise or intention to marry.

• marriage
• premarital counseling
• prenuptial agreement
• engagement

A minor change to a will is called 

• Holographic
• Nuncupative
• Codicil
• Executrix

When two people get married, the wife is required to take the husband's last name

• True
• False

When two people divorce, the property that is held prior to marriage is called:

• Community property
• English common law
• common-law rule
• separate property

What is an inheritance?

• money or property received after the death of a relative
• agreement before marriage about division of property
• a court order to hand over property

Marriage is a contract overseen by the state and made official with a marriage license.

• True
• False

A prenuptial agreement is ____________.

• required in marriage
• not required in marriage

A will

• turns over a person's property to the government
• can be made by any person at any age
• is a legal document that expresses a person's wishes concerning to distribute his or her property after death.
• s necessary for minors or their property will be forfeited to the government

If you have one brother and two sisters, they are your ________.

• brothers
• children
• siblings
• sisters

Maria’s mother dies. Maria is left with her mother’s car and house. What is the car and house considered? 

• Codicil
• Inheritance
• Beneficiary
• Annulment