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COMMENT: Adopted Child’s Right of Inheritance from the Family of Origin
Mizan Law Review, 2021 The relationship between adopted child and his/her family of adoption and family of origin is regulated under the Revised Family Code Proclamation No. 213/2000.
Wondewosen Ewunie
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Review 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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Hereditary position of kins in the first descending line of kinship, of the spouses and cohabitation partner: Comparative legal analysis [PDF]
Zbornik 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]
Potchefstroom 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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Potchefstroom 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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el-AqwalSection 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
De 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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Back to the land…again: Ownership matters! 2025 CAES fellows lecture
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 4-13, March 2026.Abstract I review historic and contemporary circumstances and issues linked with the ownership of land. I emphasize the importance of land ownership in influencing economic relations which are important to our understanding of the economy itself, the formation of the economy, winners, and losers.
B. James Deaton
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Inheritance Rights for Posthumously Procreated Children: A Growing Challenge for the Law
Potchefstroom 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
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Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 315-338, March 2026.ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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