June 2001 Table
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NATIONAL NOTES
New Inheritance Laws: Have you noticed that it's been rather muddy recently? That's probably because of all the lawyers salivating over the proposed bill in Parliament to change the laws pertaining to inheritance rights. The present laws are hundreds of years out of date and are ripe for change. Several efforts were made by the previous PLP government to make changes but got lost in the legal and political brier patch. Although women have very few rights under the present law, there is a generous right of dower for widows of the intestate. Also, outside children, a prominent fact of life in Bahamian social scene, were always excluded from intestate inheritage. The proposed bill redresses this. The bill virtually forces all property owners to make a will. Widows, for instance, will no longer have dower rights in the same proportion as before. More on this next month.
May 2001 Table
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