{"id":14724,"date":"2018-03-13T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:57:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/13\/word-of-the-day-335\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Decedent<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"layout-page\">\n<div class=\"layout-content\">\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"layout-body box clear\">\n<div class=\"content-box content-box-term\">\n<blockquote><p>A decedent is a person who is no longer living, although the word itself means &#8220;one who is dying,&#8221;\u00a0according to Merriam-Webster.\u00a0When a decedent is a legitimate\u00a0<a class=\"termLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/t\/taxpayer.asp\" data-inlink=\"link_0\">taxpayer<\/a>,\u00a0all of his possessions become part of his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/e\/estate.asp\">estate<\/a>, and he or she becomes denoted as a decedent, or deceased.\u00a0Just because decedents have passed, they\u00a0still have the legal power to effect financial transactions and other preparations of their estates\u00a0if they have conducted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/e\/estateplanning.asp\">estate planning<\/a>\u00a0before they died.<em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/d\/decedent.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Investopedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-diego\/ca-inmates-body-was-too-decomposed-know-cause-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odor Thought To Be Sewage Leads CA Prison Staff To Inmate&#8217;s Body<\/a><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0Hoa Qu\u00e1ch, <em><strong>San Diego Patch<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Examination was limited by decomposition artifact,&#8221; the autopsy said. &#8220;The only demonstrable natural disease was his hepatitis cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C viral infection. Sudden death has been associated with hepatic cirrhosis; however, the decedent was not clinically in liver failure and was not known to be jaundiced. Although it is certainly possible that the decedent died of natural causes related to his liver disease, focal bronchitis, and\/or (redacted) due to homicidal violence cannot be completely excluded.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decedent: A decedent is a person who is no longer living, although the word itself means &#8220;one who is dying,&#8221;\u00a0according to Merriam-Webster.\u00a0When a decedent is a legitimate\u00a0taxpayer,\u00a0all of his possessions become part of his\u00a0estate, and he or she becomes denoted as a decedent, or deceased.\u00a0Just because decedents have passed, they\u00a0still \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/13\/word-of-the-day-335\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14725,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}