131 Succession: legal rights arising by virtue of civil partnership
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

131  Succession: legal rights arising by virtue of civil partnership

(1)     Where a person dies survived by a civil partner then, unless the circumstance is as mentioned in subsection (2), the civil partner has right to half of the moveable net estate belonging to the deceased at the time of death.

(2)     That circumstance is that the person

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