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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{When the Law of Intestate Succession Applies:}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{1. When deceased left no will} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{2. When will left is invalid/not condonable in terms of s2(3) of Wills Act.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{3. When will left becomes inoperative} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{4. When will regulates some assets, but not all.} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.14471 cm} x{3.83229 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Parentela}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Particula parental group and it's descendants} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Parentala} 1: & Spouse and Decscendants \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Parentala} 2: & Parents and their descendants (excluding 1st Parentala) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Parentala} 3: & Grandparents and their descendansts \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.94103 cm} x{3.03597 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Blood Relationship}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{A deceased person's blood relatives are his/her principal intestate heirs} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Descendants}} & Blood relatives who decend directly from you (i.e. children and grandchildren). \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Ascendants}} & Bblood relatives from whom you descend directly (Parents and Grandparents) \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Collaterals}} & Blood relatives other than ascendants and descendants with whom you share at least one common ascendant \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} - Full blood collaterals & Two common ascendants (Siblings/uncles) \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} - Half - blood collaterals & One Common ascendant (half siblings) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Stirps}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Surviving child of the deceased who can be intestate heir AND deceased children with surviving descendants/kids.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- The number of children the preceased child had does not affect how many stipes the deceased has. For Example: A has 4 kids: B dead with 2 kids; C dead with 1 child; D dead; E alive} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{A has 3 stripes: B; C and E. Dead dead w no children, so he is not a stripe} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Representation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Occurs when the place of a would be heir who cannot/doesn't want to inherit is taken by their descendants who qualifies to inherit.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{In above example, B cannot inherent because they predeceased A. B's 2 children will split the inheritance B would have gotten equally.} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Degrees of Relationship}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Distance between various blood relatives.} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{To determine calculate the number of generations between ascendants and decendants,} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Example:}} One degree between from parent to child. Two Degrees between A and B's kids, two degrees between grand parents and grandkids, three in great grandparent relationship)} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{To determine degrees of relationship between collateral, calculate no. of generations (represented by the vertical lines in family diagram) from the deceased to the first common ascendant/s and then the number of generations from the common ascendant(s) to the collateral in question.} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Example: 2 degrees of relationship between siblings (one from descendant to common parent, then one from said parent to sibling). 3 degrees between uncle.} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{No Intestate heirs}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The executor of the deceased's estate will hand over to the Master of the High Court the monies from the intestate estate} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Administration of estates Act}}: The Master shall then place the monies in the Guardian's Fund on behalf of any person who may come forward to claim it} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{If still not claimed after 30 years, it is forfeited to the State as {\emph{bona vacantia}}} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}