April 12, 2021 - 7:30 AM A deceased B.C. man who purposely left his two children out of his will along with instructions to fight any claim his children might try to make has had a judge overturn his wishes. In an April 7 B.C. Supreme Court decision, Justice Gary Weatherill describes the late Ronald Maurice Poole as acting out of bitterness and sour grapes because he lost a custody battle over the two children 30 years earlier. According to the decision, Poole had twins in 1986 after a short relationship with their mother. The decision says he then dropped out of the twin s lives and disappeared.
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Monday April 05 2021
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A human rights watchdog company has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging staying the implementation of the late lawyer Bob Kasango’s Constitutional Court orders.
Key to orders was that judges should first resign their judicial assignments before taking up the Executive/ constitutional postings.
Legal Brains Trust Ltd in its application filed before the Supreme Court last Thursday said the same court mechanically passed the ruling to stay the implementation in Kasango judgment.
The company wants the same ruling set aside, among other requests.
“The ruling contravened known principals upon which applications for interim orders are granted in constitutional matters. When I saw the coram on the cause-list, I realised that the 2015 constitutional amendment, which requires seven justices of the Supreme Court to be empaneled in appeals from the Constitutional Court, had not been complied with,” Ms Isabella Nakiyonga, one of t
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April 2nd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Justice Joseph Karanja sitting in Busia said one does not necessarily need to be a blood relative of the deceased to qualify for a share of the estate.
“An interest in the estate of a deceased person is not tied to kinship only. A person may lack a blood relationship with a deceased person but have an interest in the property in any other capacity such as being a creditor or a dependent of the deceased in terms of Section 26 of the Succession Act,” ruled the judge.
In the case, the late Boniface Okello Okumu’s children wanted the court to remove their brother, Stephen Egesa from the list of beneficiaries of the estate after labelling him a ‘stranger.’
Daily Monitor
Friday April 02 2021
Two people were killed while several others were severely injured in a land fight involving family members in Aloc ‘A’ Village, Aromo Sub- County Lira District in March 2020. The Bill seeks to solve sharing of wealth among family members in case of death of a spouse. PHOTO/FILE
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Mr Oboth-Oboth said most families have been thrown into controversies where children fight for properties since the deceased person(s) has left no Will to guide on the distribution.
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A spouse who dies without a will (intestate), forfeits 20 per cent of his or her wealth to the surviving partner according to a new Bill passed by Parliament on Tuesday.