חוק הירושה (תיקון מס' 21), התשפ"ד–2024Succession Law (Amendment No. 21), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The amendment to the Law establishes that it will be sufficient for the court to determine, in a civil proceeding and according to the rules of civil law, that a person caused, intentionally or recklessly, the death of the testator, in order for him to be disqualified from inheriting from him, and not only if he was convicted of homicide in a criminal proceeding as was the case until the amendment. However, the aforementioned expansion will not apply to an heir who proves, at the level of proof required in a civil trial, that circumstances constituting a defense against criminal liability for the act exist. It is established that the court has discretion to determine, for special reasons to be recorded, that a person who caused the death of the testator will not be disqualified from inheriting from him, or will be only partially disqualified from inheriting from him, taking into account the circumstances of the killing or the conviction, if it is convinced that this was the testator's wish. In addition, the Bill establishes arrangements concerning the successors of those heirs who were disqualified from inheriting. Regarding the children of a disqualified heir who is the testator's child or descendant of the testator's child, it is established that the default is that these children inherit from the testator in place of the parent who was disqualified from inheriting. However, the court is authorized to determine that the said children will not inherit in place of the parent, if it is convinced that this is the testator's wish. Regarding the children of a disqualified heir who is a relative of the testator but is not the testator's child or descendant of the testator's child, it is established that the default will be reversed, meaning these children will not inherit from the testator in place of the parent who was disqualified from inheriting. In this case too, the court is authorized to determine that the said children will indeed inherit in place of the parent, if it is convinced that this is the testator's wish.

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