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Inheritance Act Claims
Second Edition
Nasreen Pearce
Price: £59.00
ISBN: 9780854900787
Extent: 450 pp
Size: 229 x 152 mm
Binding: Paperback
This book provides a clear, comprehensive, easily accessible and practical guide
to the provisions of the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act
1975 as amended.
Inheritance Act Claims sets out in detail material which is likely to be of assistance
to lawyers and non-lawyers relating to the background to the legislation,
pre-conditions and time limits for making a claim, categories of those who are
entitled to make a claim, grounds on which a claim may be made; the matters
to which the court must have regard in deciding a claim and the court powers to
make orders including the powers of the court in respect of dispositions intended
to defeat a claim, the assets out of which financial provision under the Act may be
made, the position of personal representatives and trustees and the practice and
procedure of making a claim.
It contains relevant information relating to cohabitants, the impact of the Civil
Partnership Act 2004 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts 1990 and
2008.
The appendices include a range of sample forms and precedents, the text of the
1975 Act and the relevant provisions of the CPR.
Nasreen Pearce is a retired circuit judge, and was formerly a district judge in the
Principal Registry of the Family Division. She has written widely on family law
and is a contributor to The Family Court Practice. She is the author of Change of
Name: The Law and Practice also published by Wildy, Simmonds and Hill.
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