Nick's assets are insufficient to pay all of the bequests provided for in his will, as well as the taxes, debts, and expenses of administering his estate. In this situation;
a. an abatement occurs, by which the legatees received reduced benefits or possibly no benefit.
b. each beneficiary, in the order in which he or she is named in the will, is paid in full until the assets are depleted, and the others receive nothing.
c. the assets of the estate are distributed under intestacy laws.
d. the assets are sold and the proceeds distributed per capita to the beneficiaries.
c. the assets of the estate are distributed under intestacy laws
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