INTESTATE ESTATES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 323, 8 December 1888, Page 4

INTESTATE ESTATES.

♦ A remarkable amount of ignorance is prevalent respecting the disposal of intestate estates, and in order to satisfy frequently recurring inquiries on the subject, we have obtained the followinginformation: The law now in force in the colony providing for the distribution of the estates of perfeons dying intestate is as follows, under "The Administration Act, Amendment Act,1885," which came with forceon the 20th May last. The property of a man dying intestate shall be allotted or distributed as follows : — If he leave a wife, but no children, iather, brother nor sister him surviving, the whole to his wife absolutely. If he leave a wife and children him surviving, one-third to his ■wife and two-thirds to his children. If he leave a wife and his father, but no children surviving 1 , two-thirdfa to his wife and one-third to his father. If he leave a wife and his mother, but no children nor father him surviving, tvvo-thiids to his wife and one-third to his mother. If he leave a wife and brothers and sisters, , but no children, father nor mother him surviving, two-thirds to his wife and onethird to his brothers and sisters. The separate property of a woman dying intestate shall be allotted or distributed as follows : — If she leave a husband, but no children, father, mother, brother nor sister her surviving, the \ihole to her husband abeof lutely. | If she leave a husband and children, her surviving, one-third to her husband and two-thirds to her children. If she leave a husband and father, but no children her surviving, two-thirds to her husbaud and one-third to her father. If she lea vo a husband and her mother, but no children nor father surviving, twothirds to her husband, and one-third to her mother. If she leave a husband, and brothers and sisters, but no children, father nor mother surviving, two-thirds to her husband, and one-third to her brothers and sisters. In the event of the death of a child of the man or woman dying intestate, the children of such child shall take his or her parent's share, and the words " brothers and sisters" shall include a brother or a sister, and the children of a deceased brother or sister, such children taking their parents' share.