Singapore legislation

Section 6

of Intestate Succession Act 1967

Section 6

Persons held to be similarly related to deceased

For the purposes of distribution —

(a)

there shall be no distinction between those who are related to a person deceased through his father and those who are related to him through his mother nor between those who were actually born in his lifetime and those who at the date of his death were only conceived in the womb but who have subsequently been born alive; and

(b)

those related to a person deceased by the half blood shall rank immediately after those of the whole blood related to him in the same degree.

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