THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1918, Page 4

THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.

ANOMALIES POINTED OUT By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Last Night. , A deputation from the Soldiers' Mothers' League waited on Sir James Allen -with reference to an anomaly in tht law of inheritance. Mr- Parr, in introducing the deputation, said that under the Statute of Distribution, dating from about the r»ifn of Charles 11., the of a bachelor dying intestate ,wen"t t6 & father solely. Several instances cropped :ip in which young soldiers had been absolutely neglected by their fathers during the period of rearing and education, yet when the youths had made the great sacrifice, the fathers claimed and received the insurance money and other estate. He thought the mother was entitled to at least an equal share, Sir James Allen said that many cases had come before him in which men who deserted their wives had enforced claims to deceased son's estates, and he had had great difficulty in preventing such wen benefiting by allotments and allowances that ought to go to the wives and mothers He did not know how far the law could be altered next session, or whether the Government would be prepared to legislate, but he would place the matter the Attorney-General, to see if means could be devised to place the matter on a more equitable bas»is. ,