Asked by lulu on 16-10-2023 19:13:49
Question posted in the General Law category relating to Eastern Cape
Your clients, the children of testator X, approach you for legal advice. The late testator X made the following bequest in his will:
“I bequeath my farm to my children, sons and daughters. Following the death of my children, the farm most pass to my children’s eldest sons and following the death of the said grandsons again and in turn to their eldest sons.”
can you Advise the clients on the constitutional aspects relating to the validity of the provision of fideicomissary substitution as well as how to address the matter
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