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If that condition isn’t met, the estate passes to alternate beneficiaries,” explained Kevin Ghassomian, a partner at Venable LLP. “Since Arakawa died a week before him, the issue now is whether his estate plan anticipated this scenario. According to Jonathan S. Forster, a Shareholder/Director at Weinstock Manion, “It would be surprising to learn that Gene Hackman didn’t name beneficiaries in his will that would receive his estate if his wife failed to survive him. Under the New Mexico intestate succession laws, all of the assets of his probate estate would then go to his children through a probate proceeding,” said Forster.