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The Basics of Texas Intestate Succession Law [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
The ability to specify the new owners of property upon death is an important and powerful privilege that each state grants to its citizens. The odds are, however, that you have not executed a will and if so, you would be in good company. Many famous and wealthy people have died intestate including President Abraham Lincoln and Texas billionaire Howard ...
Gerry W. Beyer
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Serres National Cadaster: An Intestate Succession Preliminary Case Study

open access: yesScientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2018
Abstract In the famous “anti-Commons” theory, resources are underused when multiple owners are endowed with the right to exclude other potential users, in contrast to the “Commons” theory that identifies resource over-exploitation. In this crucial preliminary study, “Intestate Succession” (i.e.
Athanasenas Athanasios L.   +2 more
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A FACILE STUDY OF THE STATUTORY CHALLENGES CONCERNING CUSTOMARY PRACTICE OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA

open access: yesJurnal Hukum Replik, 2023
The custom and tradition of Nigeria is an outgrowth from the history of the society. In this regard, customary law emanate from the spirit of the people.
P. Aidonojie   +1 more
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THE CONUNDRUM OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION FOR MUSLIMS IN UGANDA: Qadhis Court, Women’s Rights, and Islamic Inheritance Law Issues

open access: yesAl-Ahwal: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam, 2023
During the 2018–2022 process to amend the Succession Act, Muslims in Uganda requested a separate law to regulate their inheritance. However, this was rejected by the Parliamentary Committee.
J. Mujuzi
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE CUSTOMARY AND ISLAMIC LAWS OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION WITH REGARD TO DISCRIMINATION: A SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CASE STUDY

open access: yesJurnal Syariah, 2023
The law rule of male primogeniture (customary law of succession) was found to be unconstitutional in Bhe and Others v The Magistrate Khayelitsha and Others (Bhe) based on it unfairly discriminating against females.
M. Abduroaf
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Beyond “Death Do Us Part”: Spousal Intestate Succession in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America

open access: yesLaw and History Review, 2023
In colonial Hispanic America, widows and widowers were in an unfavorable position if their spouse died without a will, only inheriting from them if the deceased left no blood relatives to the 10th degree of kinship.
C. D. Deere
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Legal Status of Minor Testator’s Parents Deprived of Parental Authority in Intestate Succession. Some Remarks on the Solutions in Polish, Russian, and Italian Law

open access: yesReview of European and Comparative Law, 2021
The legal situation of minor testator’s parents in intestate succession poses a significant legal and social problem. In Polish law, parents who have been deprived of parental authority continue to enjoy their civil-law status; in other words, they ...
Hanna Witczak
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Inheritance of Adopted Child in Muslim Intestate Succession Law of Sri Lanka: An Analytical Juristic Study

open access: yesAl Hikmah International Journal of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, 2022
The main focus of this study is to examine the law of Inheritance as applied to the Muslim community in Sri Lanka where the community constitutes the second largest minority of the total population of the country, through systemized research conducted in
Mohammed Arafath Careem Mohammed Jiffry   +2 more
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An analysis of the rationale behind the distribution of shares in terms of the Islamic law of intestate succession

open access: yesDe Jure, 2020
There are 35 verses in Al Quraan that refer to succession. A daughter always inherits half the share of a son in terms of the Islamic law of intestate succession.
M. Abduroaf
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To Bequeath or not to Bequeath? A South African Law Analysis of the "Problematic Areas" Found in the Islamic Law of Intestate Succession

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The fairness of the Islamic Law of compulsory succession remains a heavily contested issue all over the world. Frequently debated topics, referred to in this article as the "problematic areas", include the 2:1 division of inheritance in favour of the ...
M. Sungay
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