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  2. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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    Intestate succession of property; procedures for making, interpretation, and revocation of wills (includes Statutory rule against perpetuities and Uniform Simultaneous Death Act) 3 Probate of Wills and Administration: Procedural rules for the probate process 4 Foreign Personal Representatives and Ancillary Administration

  3. Bhe v Magistrate, Khayelitsha - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Ex parte Steenkamp and Steenkamp - Wikipedia

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    In terms of the Intestate Succession Act, Mr. and Mrs. K.’s daughter and son-in-law would inherit from their infant child. The question before the court was whether this was permissible, as the son-in-law would indirectly benefit from the murders he committed. Three main issues were dealt with in Steyn J.’s judgment:

  5. Kadhi courts - Wikipedia

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    Kadhi courts or Kadhi's courts are a court system in Kenya that enforce limited rights of inheritance, family, and succession for Muslims. [1] The history of Kadhi courts extends prior to the colonization of East Africa in the 19th century, and the courts continued under British rule and after Kenyan independence in 1963. [1]

  6. Intestate Succession Act - Wikipedia

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  7. Intestacy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Mthembu v Letsela - Wikipedia

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    The rule of African customary law which generally excludes African women from intestate succession was recognised by section 23 of the Black Administration Act [2] and the regulations framed thereunder, especially regulation 2, promulgated on 6 February 1987, in Government Gazette 10601, as Government Notice R200, making black law and custom ...

  9. Hassam v Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    The applicant approached the High Court of South Africa for an order declaring that she – and other surviving partners of polygynous Muslim marriages – were entitled to the protections granted to surviving spouses under the Intestate Succession Act and Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act. Alternatively, if and insofar as the Acts could not ...