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Influence of Mediation on Estate Planning Decisions: Evidence from Indian Survey Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Intestate death can lead to the distribution of assets against the personal wishes of the deceased and is a problem in India, as 80% of Indians die without making a last will.
Gill, Amarjit   +3 more
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The 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
doaj   +1 more source

Hereditary position of kins in the first descending line of kinship, of the spouses and cohabitation partner: Comparative legal analysis [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2011
This paper analyses hereditary position of descendants, a surviving spouse and cohabitation partner, as heirs of the first class in intestate succession, in the law of Serbia and other modern laws of Europe.
Vidić Jelena
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Recent Developments Regarding South African Common and Customary Law [PDF]

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2007
This article will concentrate on the development in the common law of succession and administration of estates versus the customary law of succession and inheritance as well as the winding up of estates pursuant to constitutional tendencies, case law ...
MC Schoeman-Malan
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Special Considerations in Estate Planning for Same-Sex and Unmarried Couples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Sub-Nyquist sampling makes use of sparsities in analog signals to sample them at a rate lower than the Nyquist rate. The reduction in sampling rate, however, comes at the cost of additional digital signal processing (DSP) which is required to reconstruct
Fisher, Hallie
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Death of the Breadwinner and the Continuation of the Duty of Spousal Support: Discrepancies and Inequalities for Different Categories of Surviving Partners

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2020
This note considers the extension of the duty of spousal support after the death of the breadwinner by comparing the rights of different categories of surviving maintenance claimants, who tend to be mostly women: widows of the deceased, unmarried ...
Elsje Bonthuys
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(Mis)reading ‘Sharia’ into the Ugandan Succession Act? Edirisa Miyingo v Ismail Ssempijja and Another (Civil Appeal 189 of 2019) [2025] UGCA 273 (19 August 2025)

open access: yesel-Aqwal
Section 1 of the Succession Act provides that, “except as provided by this Act, or by any other law for the time being in force, the provisions of this Act shall constitute the law of Uganda applicable to all cases of intestate or testamentary ...
Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
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Effects of the eradication of the rule of male primogeniture on the customary law of succession

open access: yesDe Jure, 2023
This article discusses the consequences of the abolition of the rule of male primogeniture by closely and critically discussing the outcome of the Bhe v Magistrate Khayelitsha case.
Kgopotso Maunatlala
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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
SUMMARY 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.
Muneer Abduroaf
doaj  

Inheritance Rights for Posthumously Procreated Children: A Growing Challenge for the Law

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2018
Significant advances in cryogenic technology render it possible to freeze and store human gametes. Under appropriate laboratory conditions frozen gametes can remain viable for long periods of time. In consequence, it is possible for a child
Frederick Noel Zaal, Justin d'Almaine
doaj   +1 more source

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