1 Application for financial provision from deceased's estate
Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (1975 c 63) | Legislation

1  Application for financial provision from deceased's estate

(1)     Where after the commencement of this Act a person dies domiciled in England and Wales and is survived by any of the following persons—

[(a)     the spouse or civil partner of the deceased;

(b)     a former spouse or former civil partner of the deceased, but not one who has formed a subsequent marriage or civil partnership;]

[(ba)     any person (not being a person included in paragraph (a) or (b) above) to whom subsection (1A) [. . .] below applies;]

(c)     a child of the deceased;

(d)     any person (not being a child of the deceased) [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

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