Succession Law

Author: Christopher Lehane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781526522245
Published In: April 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Ireland ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Succession Law is the law governing the devolution of property on the death of its owner. This new book provides peerless analysis of this branch of law with extensive cross-referencing to related issues such as tax, private international law and trusts. It provides the reader with in-depth coverage of key Irish judgments, statutes and court rule provisions. The coverage is supplemented with Court Rule prescribed forms and many non-prescribed drafted forms, titles to grants of representation and checklists, which all readers will find invaluable aids to understanding and applying succession law in practice.

This highly practical book includes a chapter on will drafting and estate planning and provides 10 precedent templates covering most testator requirements:

Precedent 1: All to spouse, and should spouse not survive testator by 30 days, all to two children, as substituted residuary legatees and devisees – where child predeceases, gift over to any children of predeceased child alive at date of death of deceased
Precedent 2: Residue to children equally, who are minors at date of execution of will
Precedent 3: Professional executor charging clause and various devises and bequests
Precedent 4: Joint devise and various attestation clauses depending on disability of Testator
Precedent 5: Demonstrative and charitable legacies and life and remainder interests
Precedent 6: Will leaving legal right share to spouse with life estate of residue to spouse and special power of appointment amongst children of testator
Precedent 7: Wills - one dealing with estate of the testator in the State only and the other dealing with his estate outside the State
Precedent 8: Precedent Codicils
Precedent 9: Trust
Precedent 10: Discretionary Trust

The book's appendices, too, contain a wealth of practical information such as:

Client interview checklist
Prescribed Superior Court Forms
Non-prescribed Forms
Sample High Court contentious probate summonses
Law Society guidelines for solicitors drafting wills
Practitioner guidance on costs

CHAPTER 1 - Succession legislation and Court Rules

CHAPTER 2 - Wills

CHAPTER 3 - Intestacy

CHAPTER 4 - Legal Personal Representatives: Executors and Administrators

CHAPTER 5 - Grants of Representation

CHAPTER 6 - Probate Office and District Probate Registry Proceedings

CHAPTER 7 - Court Proceedings in Probate matters

CHAPTER 8 - Spouse and Children Rights against Disinheritance and related matters

CHAPTER 9 - Law relating to Legacies, Bequests and Devises

CHAPTER 10 - Administration of Assets

CHAPTER 11 - Tax

CHAPTER 12 - Trusts