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Recently, a businessman travelled to Kuala Lumpur for a meeting. After that meeting and lunch with his associates, all of them contracted Covid-19. All his friends recovered but unfortunately, he died when this deadly virus strikes like lightning. It was later discovered that he died without a will. Apparently, he was living separately from his wife and minor child. His parents and siblings could not confirm whether he divorced his wife or not. His parents…

I think you would agree with me if I say Covid – 19 or Coronavirus is the most scariest word in the whole world at the moment . While we are grounded in our homes with our family under the lockdown period, I believed all of us are bombarded with news on our television set , daily whatsapp messages and Facebook on the infected and death cases in Malaysia and the rest of world. I…

Not long ago, my friend told me that his uncle has died without a will and his former son-in-law now claims that he is the sole beneficiary of his former father-in-Law ’s estate. This led to a lot of protest from other family members especially the siblings of the deceased because they knew that the deceased was dead against giving anything to him. The deceased had quite a substantial amount of money. For a moment,…

Under the law, it allows the appointment of one executor to be appointed in the will. However, through experience, Peter Lee advises that at least two should be appointed but act in the order of priority, in the event the first executor is unwilling or unable to carry out the duties. For the appointment of joint executors, the testator may appoint up to 4 persons but where the appointment is in the order of priority, there can…