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Inheritance law in Ontario is governed by the Succession Law Reform Act (SLRA). The SLRA sets out the rules for how property is distributed when someone dies without a will (intestate) and how to probate a will. The Act provides for certain family members to be entitled to a portion of the deceased's estate, including spouse, children and parents.
Determining inheritance after a person passes away with no traditional resources like a will, trust or estate can be challenging. What can make things even more complicated is the fact that many...
The Intestate Succession Act, 1987 is unconstitutional to the extent that it discriminates between the survivors of marriages and the survivors of life partnerships. (9:1). The Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act, 1990 is unconstitutional to the same extent. (6:4). Decision by: Madlanga J (Khampepe, Majiedt, Pillay, Theron and Tlaletsi concurring)
Intestacy has a limited application in those jurisdictions that follow civil law or Roman law because the concept of a will is itself less important; the doctrine of forced heirship automatically gives a deceased person's next-of-kin title to a large part (forced estate) of the estate's property by operation of law, beyond the power of the deceased person to defeat or exceed by testamentary gift.
Advancement is a common law doctrine of intestate succession that presumes that gifts given to a person's heir during that person's life are intended as an advance on what that heir would inherit upon the death of the parent. Not to be confused with an advance of someone's expected distribution from an estate currently in probate.
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Inheritor – a beneficiary in a succession, testate or intestate. Intestate – person who has not created a will, or who does not have a valid will at the time of death. Legacy – testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of money. Note: historically, a legacy has referred to either a gift of real property or personal property.
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