0 a situation in which someone dies without leaving instructions about who should be given their property:
Even under intestacy the spouse only receives a life interest in a quarter of the estate.
Such bequests are frequent, and spouses tend to receive more than the sum allowed under intestacy.
I am not aware that the course followed, which is in accordance with the law of intestacy, is productive of avoidable hardship.
Clause 1 deals with the statutory legacies payable on intestacy to a surviving spouse.
The contradiction is that if a property is the subject of a legacy it has not fallen into intestacy.
In every aspect of the legislation on intestacy, examples of hard cases can inevitably be obtained.
The second concession is the exemption as a relevant disposal of a vesting on intestacy or under a will.
Where disputes arise, family members must make their application for the grant on the basis of the intestacy laws.
