Intestacy Now: What you need to know about the Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014 – Barristers’ Hub

Posted September 30th, 2014 in intestacy, news, trusts by tracey

It doesn’t take a legal qualification to realise that the Administration of Estates Act 1925 was outdated. A statute which starts the list of a widow’s inheritance entitlement with “carriages, horses, stable furniture and effects” is not at home in a world where last year’s iPhone is considered an antique. Fortunately, from 1st October 2014, the somewhat antediluvian “rules of intestacy” are getting a makeover in the form of The Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014, which brings the 1925 Act into the 21st century.’

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Barristers Hub, 29th September 2014

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