Succession Law

(Hardback)

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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, conveyancing, family law, enduring powers of attorney, limitation of actions, estate accounts, private international law and trusts. It provides the reader with in-depth coverage of key Irish judgments, statutes, court rule provisions and Court and Probate Officer practice directions. 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: Article 22 EU Succession Regulation choice of law clause, 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: * Draft precedent titles for grants of representation. *Template proceedings, wills, forms and letters. *Practitioner, testator and legal personal representative checklists. *Unique genealogical kinship tracing diagram and table. *Probate system process maps. * Superior Court, Land Registry and Registry of Deed Rules and forms. * Non-prescribed Forms. * Sample High Court contentious probate summonses. * Law Society guidelines for solicitors drafting wills and dealing with vulnerable clients. * Practitioner guidance on costs. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Wills and Probate online service.

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The title of this impressive tome, which extends to circa, 1000 pages, fails to reflect the detailed treatment received by many issues which crop up for probate practitioners on a daily basis but do not neatly fall within the rubric of succession law. In both the foreword and the preface, the text is referred to as a one stop authority designed for busy practitioners, administrators and students. This is an accurate description... [T]his book is a very valuable addition to the literature in the area. I strongly suspect it will become indispensable. -- Una Woods * The Irish Jurist *

Author Bio

Christopher Lehane is a practising barrister. He recently retired as an officer of the High Court where he served for 42 years, 22 years of which were spent in the Probate Office and 12 years as Official Assignee in Bankruptcy. He served as Deputy Probate Officer of Ireland for eight years and Assistant Probate Officer of Ireland for five years, administering probate law in Ireland. He was Consultant in Probate Law in the Law Society of Ireland for 15 years, teaching and examining solicitor students and giving CPD talks for qualified solicitors. He also lectured in Griffith College Dublin in executorship law for 11 years, teaching ACCA and CPA students. Christopher currently runs CPD webinars for solicitors on developments in succession law. He has written the student manuals in the Law Society on probate and in Griffith College Dublin on executorship law.