Passing on Money - Dividing the Estate

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Dividing the Estate

Whatever remains after any prior and legal rights have been met passes to your survivors or relatives in the following order of priority:

• any children or, if they have died, their children;
• if there are no children but there are parents and/or brothers and sisters, half to the parents and half to the siblings; if a sibling has died, his or her place is taken by his or her children, if any;
• if no parents, everything to the brothers and/or sisters;
• if no brothers or sisters, parents take everything;
• a surviving spouse;
• uncles and aunts or, if they have died, their children;
• grandparents;
• brothers and/or sisters of grand- parents or, if they have died, their children;
• remoter ancestors.
  

If you are survived by no family at all, the estate passes to the Crown.