SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 2Amendments of Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
Children of the family
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Section 1 (application for financial provision from deceased's estate) is amended as follows.
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).