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UK Parliament · Bill
Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Act 2011
Summary
This Act changes the rules about who can inherit money and property from a dead person. Mainly, it says that if someone was partly responsible for the person's death but didn't mean to do it, they can still inherit—whereas old rules would have stopped them completely. It also updates other inheritance laws to be clearer and fairer.
A vote to support means
- —Supporting this Act means helping people who inherit money or property from someone who has died. It makes the rules fairer by allowing people to still inherit even if they were involved in the death, as long as they didn't do it on purpose, and it modernises old inheritance laws to work better today.
A vote to oppose means
- —Some people might worry that the Act makes it too easy for someone involved in a person's death to still inherit their money or property. Others might be concerned it changes traditional inheritance rules in ways that could cause family disputes or be unfair to other relatives.
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Bill Passage
Commons
- 1st reading30 Jun 2010
- 2nd reading21 Jan 2011
- Committee stage16 Feb 2011
- Report stage4 Mar 2011
- 3rd reading4 Mar 2011
Lords
- 1st reading7 Mar 2011
- 2nd reading13 May 2011
- Committee stage15 Jun 2011
- 3rd reading23 Jun 2011
Royal Assent12 Jul 2011
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