TSEM7868 - Deceased persons: intestacy: Northern Ireland - division of estate

The rights of the surviving spouse or civil partner聽and the rules of inheritance are explained at TSEM7864.

If the intestate is not married or in a civil partnership, the rules of inheritance apply. Unmarried partners and/or friends will not inherit. The rules set out the priority order in which the estate would be equally shared.

  1. 听颁丑颈濒诲谤别苍
  2. 听笔补谤别苍迟蝉
  3. 聽Brothers or sisters
  4. Nieces and nephews
  5. Grandparents
  6. Uncles and聽aunts
  7. 颁辞耻蝉颈苍蝉听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

No surviving kin

Where a person dies intestate and without leaving kin entitled to his/her estate, the estate passes to the Crown.