Last Change:
10/07/2026
Intestate Succession Act, 1989
Original names of the law: Intestate Succession Act, 1989
Year: 1989
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Housing, land & property, Family life
Description
An Act to provide a uniform intestate succession law that will be applicable throughout the country; to make adequate financial and other provisions for the surviving spouse, children, dependants and other relatives of an intestate to provide for the administration of the estates of persons dying not having made a will; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
Selected provisions
"dependant" in relation to a deceased person means a person who was maintained by that deceased
person immediately prior to his death and who was—
(a) a person living with that deceased person; or
(b) a minor whose education was being provided for by that deceased person; and who is incapable,
either wholly or in part of maintaining himself;