Every year in Maryland, individuals die without a valid will leaving behind property, financial accounts, and unresolved intentions. When that happens, the state does not simply confiscate the estate. Instead, a body of law steps in to answer the question the decedent never answered:  who gets what?  This is the law of intestate succession, codified in Title 3 of the Maryland Estates and Trusts Article, Md. Code Ann., Est. & Trusts §§ 3-101 to 3-413. What sounds like a routin