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The Intestate Succession Act, 1987 applies, except as explained below, in all cases where a person dies wholly or partially intestate after 18 March 1988. Under the Act, the surviving spouse and the adopted child are heirs of the deceased. The historical discrimination visited on extra-marital children has disappeared.
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)
The court further declared that, until the defects were corrected by the legislature, the distribution of intestate black estates was to be governed by the Intestate Succession Act. [4] [5] In the Shibi matter, the applicant's brother had died intestate. The deceased had not married, nor had he been a partner in a customary union.
The court ruled that the Intestate Succession Act, 1987, which granted the right of intestate succession to spouses but not to same-sex life partners, unfairly discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation. The Act was therefore invalid because it violated section 9 of the Constitution. To rectify the unconstitutionality, the court read the ...
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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 ...
Juleiga Daniels's husband died intestate in 1994; the main item in the deceased's estate was the couple's home in Cape Town.Because the couple had been married by Muslim rites, without solemnisation under the Marriage Act, 1961, the Master of the High Court found that Daniels could not inherit the deceased's estate or receive maintenance from it; such a marriage did not qualify her as a ...
In Govender v Ragavayah, [1] an important case in the South African law of succession, the applicant was a woman married in terms of Hindu rites, whose husband had died intestate. Accordingly, the parents of her husband stood to inherit his estate.