James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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LA4007:03

Succession

Townsville

Prerequisites: LA3002 LA3011 LA3012 LA3013 LA3014

26 lectures, 6 tutorials. July intensive mode.

Available to level 4 LLB students or combined degree students.

Testate succession – wills, testamentary capacity, personal representatives, executors, grants of probate, administration of assets, legacies, payment of debts.

Intestate succession - the rules applicable to total and partial intestacy; grants of letters of administration.

Testator’s family maintenance - claims of family and dependants to support from the estate of the deceased and the power of the court to vary a will.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to introduce students to the law of succession, the problems associated with the branch of the law and proposals for reform.

Assessment by essay (20%); final examination (80%) (subject to variation).


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