• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Yes, but there wouldn’t be a reason to say living son unless there was a deceased sibling. The wording implies one or more deaths.

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      16 days ago

      Legal documents tend to just specify things like that as a matter of course. Boilerplate is easier to adapt than starting from scratch every time.