Opinion ID: 2229658
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: determination of heirship

Text: Having determined that Chaney and Johnson are children of the decedent, we need look no further than Neb.Rev.Stat. § 30-2303 (Reissue 1989) to determine the heirs to the decedent's intestate estate. According to § 30-2303, the entire intestate estate if there is no surviving spouse, passes as follows: (1) to the issue of the decedent; if they are all of the same degree of kinship to the decedent they take equally.... Issue is defined in Neb.Rev.Stat. § 30-2209(23) (Reissue 1989) as all [of a person's] lineal descendants of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definitions of child and parent contained in this code. Because Chaney and Johnson are children of the decedent, they are the decedent's issue for the purposes of § 30-2303. Chaney and Johnson stand in the same degree of kinship to the decedent, and the decedent's entire intestate estate passes to them in equal shares. This assignment of error is without merit.