Estate planning is part of comprehensive financial planning. It includes making a will. If you don’t make a will before your death, you will die intestate. In that case, your assets will be ...

Think estate planning can wait? Here’s the thing: putting off or delaying estate planning can leave your loved ones in a difficult position. Among the issues is passing away without a will, one of ...

THE PERSON who is next entitled both to administer an estate and to benefit in an estate are determined in accordance with the statutory rules of entitlement as set out in the Succession Act 1965. The ...

Parliament Wednesday inched towards the passage of the Intestate Succession Bill when the bill passed through its second reading stage. The Bill, which was laid before the House on November 3, 2009 ...

Question: There has been a lot of advertising for wills lately. My husband says it is just a money-making racket for lawyers to get fees. Is a will really necessary? Answer: We all have a will by ...

The Gender ministry on International Womens day is reflecting on 30 years of operation of the intestate succession law popularly known as PNDC law 111. Joy News’ Dzifa Bampoh has been looking at how ...

This is quite a peculiar problem that is quite common in Hindu families wherein the shares of the family-run business is held by all family members. Since your estranged brother runs a competing ...

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 ...