2(1)Section 1 (application for financial provision from deceased's estate) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)In subsection (1)(d), for the words from “who” to the end substitute “ who in relation to any marriage or civil partnership to which the deceased was at any time a party, or otherwise in relation to any family in which the deceased at any time stood in the role of a parent, was treated by the deceased as a child of the family; ”.
(3)After subsection (2) insert—
“(2A)The reference in subsection (1)(d) above to a family in which the deceased stood in the role of a parent includes a family of which the deceased was the only member (apart from the applicant).”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/2039, art. 2