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A LAW to further amend the Wills and Successions (Jersey) Law 1993.

THE STATES, subject to the sanction of His Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

“3A   Assets forming part of immovable estate treated as acquêts

(1)     In every collateral succession of immovable estate on intestacy, an asset forming part of the immovable estate (whether acquired by the deceased person on inheritance or by other means) is treated as an acquêt.

(2)     This Article does not apply to the estate of a person who dies before the commencement of the Wills and Successions (Amendment No. 3 – Collateral Succession of Immovable Estate) (Jersey) Law 2024.”.

“14C  Abolition of rules relating to collateral succession of immovable estate

(1)     The following rules of customary law, which relate to propres, are abolished –

(a)     paterna paternis, materna maternis;

(b)     le côté paternel l’emporte par dignité.”.

(2)     The abolition in paragraph (1) does not apply to the estate of a person who dies before the commencement of the Wills and Successions (Amendment No. 3 – Collateral Succession of Immovable Estate) (Jersey) Law 2024.”.