Intestacy in UK Law

  • Intestacy Rules
    • Appendices
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 287-294
  • Trying to Square the Circle: Comparative Remarks on the Rights of the Surviving Spouse on Intestacy
    • No. , January 2020
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 123-131
  • Enduring Love? Attitudes to Family and Inheritance Law in England and Wales
    • No. 38-2, June 2011
    • Journal of Law and Society
    This paper reports on the findings from a large‐scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the family' is i...
    ... ... Morrell** This paper reports on the findings from a large-scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the ` family' is in terminal decline, people in England and Wales still view their most important ... ...
  • Introduction
    • No. , January 2020
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 110-111
    ... ... Yet, or perhaps precisely because of its importance, it is challenging to design a satisfactory set of intestacy rules, not least because of the need to balance manifold interests. Moreover, it is notoriously difficult to reach consensus about what the exact ... ...
  • Concluding Reflections
    • No. , January 2020
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 147-152
    ... ... , that due to the lack of coordination between intestate succession laws and legal rights, a surviving spouse may be better off under intestacy than as sole beneficiary under the deceased's will, and thus may be inclined to create an artificial intestacy, at the expense of the deceased's ... ...
  • Mixing without Matching: Fractions, Slabs, and the Succession Rights of the Surviving Spouse and Children
    • No. , January 2020
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 118-123
    ... ... No other country, so far as I know, mixes a slab system with a fractional system, using one for intestacy and the other for the forced share. Scotland is unwise to try to do so. Of course, the forced share need not precisely follow the rules on intestacy ... ...
  • Succession Rights for Cohabitants
    • No. , January 2020
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 138-143
    ... ... From a comparative perspective, only few other European legal systems have granted intestacy rights to cohabitants.7 For a variety of practical, political, ideological and religious reasons, most jurisdictions have continued to rely on status ... ...
  • Wills and Other Death Dispositions
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 19-26
    ... ... The most obvious reason for a person to make a will is to avoid any questions of inheritance being decided by the rules of intestacy (see para 1.4), which may apply in a general and impersonal fashion. However, a practitioner advising a client might also consider the following: ... ...
  • Index
    • Appendices
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 303-327
    ... ... Conditional and contingent gifts; Minors; Statutory trusts (on intestacy) of executor 118 of testator advanced see Care, for elderly people; Testators, mental capacity, golden rule minimum see Testators, age: ... ...
  • 2010-05-01
    • No. , May 2010
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 306-323
    ... ... by the Law Commission of England and Wales,3

    Intestacy and Family Provision (Law Com CP No 191 (2009), available at

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