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[General Fantasy] How does resurrection work legally?

I die. This is all sorted out legally- my estate is distributed according to my will and my loved ones get an insurance payout. All straightforward.

Shortly after the legal stuff is fully sorted out, a friendly cleric/dragon ball/phoenix down/whatever brings me back from the dead. What happens now?

Do I get my stuff back, or do my loved ones get to keep it? Do I get arrested for insurance fraud? Do my loved ones? Does the friendly Resurrection person?

How does this bonafide miracle work according to boring bureaucratic legalese?
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If this is the first instance, then likely it's treated like other cases where someone has been declared dead and then returned.. anything given away is gone and anything held by a trust or kept in escrow is given back.


If resurrection is a known concept, then laws are no doubt rewritten so that your belongings and propery are held in escrow or maintained by a trust for a certain period of time.. in a D&D universe, the maximum length of time before a body cannot be resurrected, perhaps.. usually a year and a day, but no matter the universe long enough that said resurrection is no longer a probability.


The worst case scenario would be no will or trust, then usually everything goes to the state or next of kin.