Anna Nicole’s Will Analyzed

In Anna Nicole Smith’s Will: A Tragedy in Many Acts, 95 Ill. B.J. 270 (2007), Katarinna McBride discusses Anna Nicole’s will in which she disinherited her daughter by expressly omitting all future born children from her will:

Under California’s pretermitted heir staute, an heir that was intentionally excluded cannot use the pretermitted heir statute to take a share of the decedent’s estate, as long as the intention to exclude that child is clear from the face of the will.***

Finally we have arrived to California intestacy laws. Though intestacy commonly refers to individuals who die without a testamentary instrument or a will, it also applies to individuals with wills that fail to name a beneficiary.***

Since Dannielynn is Anna Nicole’s only surviving child, she will potentially inherit her mother’s entire estate.