A. A person who has died without a valid will.
(in-test-tayt)
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adj. 1. Of or relating to a person who has died without a valid will <having revoked her will without making a new one, she was intestate when she died>. 2. Of or relating to the property owned by a person without a valid will <an intestate estate>.
n. One who has died without a valid will.
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Mr Matheka died at 54, after a short illness.
Trouble started in February 1990 a few weeks after his burial when Isabella and Mueni were granted the letters of administration of the state by Mr Justice Erastus Githinji.
Mr Matheka had died intestate.
But Mr Muthui lodged an objection on July 1990 praying to be issued with a grant to the former PS’s estate.
Mrs Matheka and her daughter petitioned the confirmation of the grant. The widow’s affidavit had named Matheka’s survivors as his three sons Robert Kala, David Nzioki and Stephen Masaai, all in the United States.
She disowned Mr Muthui, terming him an impostor but he stood his ground saying the PS was his father although he never married his mother.
The case took a dramatic turn on June 27, 2002, when Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch ruled that Mr Muthui was the PS’s son and was entitled to a share of his wealth.
Evidence was adduced to the effect that Mr Matheka had a relationship with Mr Muthui’s mother before he married Isabella.
And Mr Muthui was born out of the relationship. Although there was no evidence that the deceased continued with the relationship, documents presented in court indicated that he had an attachment to Mr Muthui.
For instance on June 17, 1987, Eric was admission to Jabalpur University in India. Villagers stunned as former PS is buried twice Story by BOB ODALO Sunday Nation Online, Publication Date: 5/16/2007 Read More Villagers stunned as former PS is buried twice Story by BOB ODALO Sunday Nation Online, Publication Date: 5/16/2007 Read More