Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2024 #194Eric Stanley King (deceased), a divorcee, died intestate on 15 April 2021. Rule 22 of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987 (NCPR 1987) set out the order of priority for a grant of letters of administration on an intestacy; in this case, the persons entitled were the appellant and respondent (being the children of the deceased) and the three children of a third child who had predeceased the deceased. Where more than one person of the same degree was entitled to a grant, the court had a discretion as to which of them it should appoint as administrator. In this ...
Stuart Adams gives his view on the proposals to reform the rules in light of the recent consultation ‘Those who campaign against the use of gobbledygook, jargon and the like will applaud the efforts made to simplify the terms contained in the NCPRs and to, where possible, prepare a set of Draft Rules in plain …
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