If you die without even a will in place, which happens tragically far more often than it should, your property passes on to predetermined beneficiaries by intestate succession. This is a generic or default way for wealth to be passed down that is codified in state laws.nnWhile every state’s intestate succession laws are a little bit different, the process is generally the same. During an intestate succession in Maryland probate, the state will decide where your money and property goes. They pick which of your relatives get your assets based on pre-established and inflexible rules, and often it is not at all the way you would have wanted it distributed.