Protect your legatees and heirs by ensuring there is a well-executed will to simplify and clarify your wishes: Dr Eben Nel – national chair of the Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa. You can also ...

It’s not anything we particularly want to think about, but it’s important that we do, and is something we should prepare for. Making a will can be difficult, time-consuming and worrying when you have ...

Our legal system provides for freedom of testation, which means that a person writing their will can provide for the distribution of their estate among friends, family, spouses and charities as they ...

A parent died intestate with the understanding that her property should be shared equally between her children. Some have since passed on. Does their portion go to their estates (children) or does ...

In India, there are two alternative courses of succession to the property of a deceased person post his demise. One is testamentary and the other is intestate. “Testament” is a testimonial which ...