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Abatement

The process of allocating the arrears of estate assets to the distributions. Distributions from the estate proceed in a particular order starting with specific legacies, effusive legacies, general legacies, and finally residuary legacies. If legacies assets are not capable to meet the will's provisions for the legacy category, all legacies in the category are reduced by the same Percentage.

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