#inheritance-law

#inheritance-law

The dowry, which is negotiated before marriage and legally treated as debt, can be claimed by the wife at any time during a marriage or when getting divorced. The new, more lenient policy sharply lowers the threshold for the amount a man must pay his wife in the event of divorce to avoid imprisonment from 110 gold coins to just 14.

Dispute hinged on whether outfarms were included in bequeathal The High Court has resolved a bitter family dispute over the will of a Carlow bachelor farmer, ruling that the deceased intended to leave his entire 69ac landholding to his nephew, who had worked the farm for decades. The case, officially cited as Murphy v Butler and Others, hinged on the interpretation of the 2019 will of William Doyle from Bealalaw, Myshall,