Letter of Administration and Succession Certificate Act 2020 - Khalid Zafar & Associates

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Letter of Administration and Succession Certificate Act 2020

The Letter of Administration and Succession Certificate Act 2020 was enacted on 13th February 2020 to provide the basis for an efficacious and speedy, mechanism for facilitating issuance of Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates aimed at curtailing fraud and forgery. In this Act the word legal heir means a person who has entitlement to a share in the property of the deceased. Whereas the word factual controversy includes an objection by legal heirs or by any claimant of legal heirship any dispute which may arise in establishing the identity of legal heirs which is nor resolvable by the authority or any situation matter or even requiring adjudication or recording of evidence or where at least one of the local heirs is a minor.