Code · Wisconsin · Chapter 854 — Transfers at death — general rules

854.06 Predeceased transferee.

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(1)Definitions. In this section:

(a)“Provision in a governing instrument” includes all of the following:

1. A gift to an individual whether or not the individual is alive at the time of the execution of the instrument.

2. A share in a class gift only if a member of the class dies after the execution of the instrument.

3. An appointment by the decedent under any power of appointment, unless the issue who would take under this section could not have been appointees under the terms of the power.

(c)“Stepchild” means a child of the decedent’s surviving, deceased or former spouse, and not of the decedent.