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Succession (Scotland) Act 2016

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1Effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on will

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(1)This section applies where—

(a)a person (“the testator”) by a will—

(i)confers a benefit or power of appointment on a person, or

(ii)appoints a person as a trustee or executor,

(b)that person (“P”) is, or becomes, the testator’s spouse or civil partner,

(c)the marriage or civil partnership is terminated, and

(d)the testator then dies.

(2)P is to be treated as having died before the testator for the purposes of the will except for the purposes of any appointment of P or another person as a guardian.

(3)Subsection (2) does not apply if the will expressly provides that P is to—

(a)have the benefit or power of appointment, or

(b)be so appointed as a trustee or executor,

even if the marriage or civil partnership is terminated.

(4)For the purposes of this section, a marriage is terminated in the event of divorce or annulment and a civil partnership is terminated in the event of dissolution or annulment.

(5)In this section, references to “divorce”, “dissolution” and “annulment” are to divorce, dissolution or annulment—

(a)obtained from a court of civil jurisdiction in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, or

(b)if not so obtained, the validity of which is recognised in Scotland.

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