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title: Inheritance & Standing
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description: What is Standing, and how it is effected by inheritance.
date: 2024-09-26T11:37:43-04:00
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  - inheritance
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> [!NOTE]
> Standing - Is the ability or authority to bring a case before the courts.

### In application to our situation

In respects to our position, it does not mean what took place was not illegal or wrong, what it means is due to the absence of an assurity of how the dissolution of the estate will resolve the matter of ownership, the court cannot recognize inheritors as owners, and thus inheritors cannot assume the authority acquired to bring action against an offending party. The requirement of standing in this regard is understandable and a necessity. Unfortunately, it does make navigation of the legal waters a much more hazardous conquest.

### Ensuring the sanctity of inheritance

Naturally, one 

> [!NOTE]
> Inheritance - an estate or property which a man has by descent, as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another, as his heir.

#### A different approach

Although the courts do not allow cases to be brought before them in which a person does not possess proper standing, this does not mean the plaintiff is without a course of action. The legal system views a person's Last Will and Testament as a contract between a grantee and an inheritor. Thus, by intentionally interfering with the outcome of the contract between the deceased and the inheritor, the defendant is liable.