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This article examines the evolution of Zimbabwe’s law of intestate succession since it gained independence in 1980, with a specific focus on improvements made to the welfare of widows married under customary law.
Standa Sani
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This article examines the evolution of Zimbabwe’s law of intestate succession since it gained independence in 1980, with a specific focus on improvements made to the welfare of widows married under customary law.
Standa Sani
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Intestate Succession in Ghana before and after PNDCL 111, 1985
, 2020The study investigated intestate succession in Ghana before and after PNDCL 111, 1985. To satisfy the objectives of the research, qualitative research was held. The main objective is to find out if PNDC Law 111 fully promotes women’s property inheritance
Joshua Kweku Aba
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“Reforming the law of intestate succession in a legally plural Ghana”
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2019There has been minimal compliance with Ghana’s Intestate Succession Act, 1985, (PNDC Law 111) especially by communities in rural areas whose lives are governed almost exclusively by customary law.
A. Hammond
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17. Wills and intestate succession
2022This chapter is concerned with the arrangements which people can make to choose who will benefit from their property after their death. It is also concerned with what happens when the deceased makes no choice at all and dies intestate. It has been said that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. The two are linked in another way, because
Warren Barr, John Picton
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Why Is It So Difficult to Reform the Law of Intestate Succession?
Edinburgh Law Review, 2019When those interested in succession law look back in time the current period of its history in Scotland may be perplexing. We have been attempting to reform the law of succession for over thirty years, and although minor “technical” changes have been ...
Dot Reid
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Principles of Intestate Succession in Israeli Law
Israel Law Review, 1988The principles of the law of succession of the State of Israel are assembled in the Succession Law, 1965. This statute, consisting of eight chapters and 161 sections, constitutes a first attempt at codification of Israeli civil law. The statute was intended to end the recourse to the conglomeration of laws previously applied to a person's succession ...
Ariel Rosen-Zvi, Asher Maoz
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2003
Abstract The Law of 3 December 2001 which came into force on 1 July 2002 applies to all deaths after that date. Whilst the major reform to the laws of intestate succession instituted by that Law is in respect of the rights of the surviving spouse, it took the opportunity to make certain other significant changes to the law, not all of
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Abstract The Law of 3 December 2001 which came into force on 1 July 2002 applies to all deaths after that date. Whilst the major reform to the laws of intestate succession instituted by that Law is in respect of the rights of the surviving spouse, it took the opportunity to make certain other significant changes to the law, not all of
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Intestate Succession in Australia and New Zealand
2015The rules of intestate succession in Australia and New Zealand have their origins in English law as a result of colonization. This article considers the historical development of intestate succession in Australia and New Zealand. The authors discuss the major differences between the colonization of each country, and the effect this had upon the ...
Peart, Nicola, Vines, Prue
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LA DELACIÓN ABINTESTATO Y SUS REGÍMENES (Intestate Succession and Its Regimes)
Social Science Research Network, 2023Manuel Ángel De las Heras García
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Mother’s Baby, Father’s Maybe – Intestate Succession
2011Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2011)
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