With the introduction of the Wills & Estates Succession Act last year, are there any changes to who gets a share of my estate if I don’t have a Will?
Yes there are. An estate used to be divided on the basis of “consanguinity” and it is now divided in a “parentelic” manner. If you have a spouse and no “descendants”, everything goes to your spouse. If you have no spouse, everything goes to your descendants. If you have a spouse and descendants there is…