Section 108Succession Act 2006 (NSW)

General limitation of non-spousal entitlements

(1) A person is not entitled to participate in the distribution of an intestate estate unless the person survives the intestate.
(2) A reference in this Act to a child, issue, relative, or issue of a relative, of an intestate is limited to a person of the relevant description whose entitlement to share in the distribution of the intestate estate is not excluded under subsection (1).

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