Indian Succession Act, 1925 provides certain privileges to a soldier, an airman and a mariner at sea employed in an expedition or engaged in actual warfare. These privileges are enacted keeping in mind the complicated predicament a soldier is in during the tenure of...
Will is a legal document through which a person decides how his/her property would be distributed, allocated and spent after his death. A person who dies without creating a will is called dying intestate. Dying intestate forces the relatives of the deceased to spend...
Will is a divine institution since its exercise is regulated by ‘Quran’. It offers to the testator the means of correcting to a certain extent the law of succession and of enabling some of those relations who are excluded from inheritance to obtain a share in his...
Bequests by a Muslim can only take effect to the extent of one-third of the net assets remaining after payment of his funeral ‘expenses and debts. Unless the excess is rendered valid by the consent, given after the death of the testator, of the inheritors whose...
Where the right of either an executor or a legatee under a Will is in issue, such right can be established only where probate (where an executor has been appointed under the Will) or letters of administration (where no executor is appointed under a Will)have been...
A will is a legal declaration of the intention of a person who is desirous of transferring his wealth to the subsequent generations. It takes effect after the death of the maker of the will. A will is a unilateral document which can be revoked or altered by the person...
