The Speaker of Parliament has commended Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) for braving the executive and moving with the gender-related bills that have been passed.
According to the breakdown, of the deceased or testators wealth, the surviving spouse or spouses will take 20 per cent, the dependant relatives take 4 per cent, the linear descendants or biological and adopted children take 75 per cent while the customary heir will take 1 per cent. The repealed act provided for only 15 per cent for the spouse.
Monica Amoding, the Kumi Woman MP and the Chairperson Uganda Womens Parliamentary Association-UWOPA welcomed the move, saying some of the bills are long overdue despite being instrumental.
Proposed amendments to the Succession Act were tabled before Parliament in 2011, to address a lacuna created by a 2007 Constitutional Court ruling that declared a number of sections of the Succession Act null and void.
