The Law Handbook 2024

916 Section 9: Health, wills and other legal issues affecting older people Where the intestate dies leaving: Estate would pass to: more than one aunt or uncle, but no partner, no child or other issue, no parent, no sibling, no issue of a sibling and no grandparent: the aunts and uncles equally (and if an aunt or uncle dies before the intestate leaving a child, that child takes the deceased aunt or uncle’s share and if more than one child, equally) one aunt or uncle but no partner, no child or other issue, no parent, no sibling, no issue of a sibling and no grandparent: the aunt or uncle takes the whole estate no partner, no child or other issue, no parent, no sibling, no issue of a sibling, no grandparent, no aunt or uncle and no children of a deceased aunt or uncle: the Crown takes the whole estate