WIDOWERS NO LONGER HAVE TO PROVE MAINTAINANCE BY THEIR SPOUSE THE LAW OF SUCCESSION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021 The Law of succession (Amendment) Act, 2021 (The Amendment Act ) - was assented on the 17th November, 2021. PREDOMINANT OBJECT To give legitimate dependants of a deceased person a claim and a right in the deceased intestate estate. Amendments. This Act introduces the term spouse. According to clause 2 of the Amended Act defined spouse as a husband or a wife or wives recognized under the marriage Act. The Amendment Act under clause 3 has amended section 29 of the Principal Act by providing the following definition of dependants. The following persons are recognized as dependants under the Amendment Act. The spouse and children of the deceased whether or not maintained by the deceased immediately prior to his death; and Such of the deceased's parent step parents, grandparents, grandchildren, step children, children whom the deceased had taken into his family as his ...
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