Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ESTATE TAXES
  
  Federal estate taxes and state inheritance taxes (as well as the debts of decedents) are general, statutory, involuntary liens that encumber a deceased person's real and personal property. These are normally paid or cleared in probate court proceedings. (See inheritance taxes, lien)
  
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