A “hotchpot”? Really??
Posted by TDot on Sep 15, 2010 in The 2L Life | Subscribe
Only in ZombieLaw would something called a “hotchpot” be a real and legally significant thing.1
For all the vaunted education of all the property attorneys in the world over however many centuries, you’d think they could come up with a better word… 
- For you aspiring law students: the “hotchpot” is apparently what you call a zombie’s net estate plus any advancements that have already been made to his/her kids, and that total $$ amount (estate + advancements) is what gets distributed to however many heirs exist. [↩]
Agreed! I didn’t encounter this one until bar prep, which seemed to make it all the more exasperating.
wow… so is that different to a *hotchpotch* ;-)
Certainly doesn’t seem like it!
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