Sentences with phrase «right of a deceased person»

In most states, at the time of a person's passing, «lineage» dictates who has the right of a deceased person's disposition.

Not exact matches

When property is owned jointly with right of survivorship, the property rights of the deceased are transferred to the other owners (not to the deceased person's heirs).

Meanwhile, human rights and constitutional lawyer, Dr Anthony Agbazuere who is also counsel to the complainants, said he had petitioned the Inspector General of Police over the gruesome murder of the deceased persons and the police boss directed the Abia state commissioner to investigate the case.

Current state law details which individuals have the right to control the disposition of remains, without any consideration as to whether the person entitled to exercise such right may have killed the deceased.

In 1968, when there were no techniques to observe how the brain worked in vivo, the neurologist Norman Geschwind discovered in deceased persons that a region of the temporal lobe, the planum temporale, was larger in the left than in the right hemisphere.

Sterritt *** The widow of a recently deceased adventurer learns she's the heiress to millions of hidden dollars and meets threatening people who believe they have a right to it.

The whole legal terrain is fascinating, and consists of a stewing heap of conflicting rationales, policies, privacy legislation and common laws around the rights of heirs, deceased people, states and private corporations.

Under Section 59 of the Estate Administration Act, a personal representative of a deceased claimant may continue or bring and maintain an action for a loss or damage to the person or property of the deceased in the same manner and with the same rights and remedies as the deceased, except for certain actions such liable and slander, pain and suffering, and loss of expectancy of earnings.

The person with the first right to act as estate trustee is the spouse of the deceased, followed by adult children, then any other adult descendants, then the parents of the deceased, then the adult siblings.

RIGHT OF CLOSE RELATIVE TO SEEK EXPUNCTION ON BEHALF OF DECEASED PERSON.

In some instances, a court may decide that while property is held in the name of the deceased, another person actually has the right to that property based on the contributions he / she made to it.

In certain circumstances, a court may determine that even though property is held in the name of the deceased, another person has a right to that property by virtue of his or her contributions to it.

(a) no action in respect of any claim to the personal estate of a deceased person or to any share or interest in any such estate (whether under a will or on intestacy) shall be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right to receive the share or interest accrued.»

Declarations as to public or general rights: an oral or written declaration by a deceased person concerning the existence of such a right is admissible provided it was made before a dispute had arisen.

Comment: Several commenters urged that the proposed standard for deceased individuals be clarified to allow access by a family member who has demonstrated a legitimate health - related reason for seeking the information when there is no executor, administrator, or other person authorized under applicable law to exercise the right of access of the individual.

However, the covered entity may allow other persons, such as personal representatives, to exercise the rights of the individual under certain circumstances, e.g., for a deceased individual.

During the two - year time frame, we proposed in the definition of «individual» that the right to control the deceased individual's protected health information would be held by an executor or administrator, or other person (e.g., next of kin) authorized under applicable law to act on behalf of the decedent's estate.

«No action in respect of any claim to the personal estate of a deceased person or to any share or interest in any such estate (whether under a will or on intestacy) shall be brought after the expiration of 12 years from the date on which the right to receive the share or interest accrued...»

courts, and until the time of James I, it was punished through the instrumentality of those tribunals not merely because ecclesiastical rights had been violated, but because upon the separation of the ecclesiastical courts from the civil the ecclesiastical were supposed to be the most appropriate for the trial of matrimonial causes and offences against the rights of marriage, just as they were for testamentary causes and the settlement of the estates of deceased persons.

If you are the relative, spouse, de-facto or another person who had a close relationship with a now deceased birth parent or deceased adopted person, you are able to apply to be considered to inherit the right to obtain access to some of the information that would have been available to them.

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The rules afford the surviving spouse or civil partner a legal right to a share in the deceased's estate and allow the child (ren) of the deceased person to apply to the Courts to have provision made for them out of the estate.

Where a deceased person has made permanent provision for his / her spouse or civil partner during the deceased person's lifetime before 1st January 1967, other than periodical payments for maintenance made during the deceased person's lifetime, such a provision shall be offset against the legal right of the spouse or civil partner.

A person's application to inherit the rights of a deceased birth parent or adopted person will be assessed.