Family Provision

English Legal System: Family Provision

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Family Provision : Provision made by the courts out of the estate of a deceased person in favour of his family or *dependants. The court may award a family provision if it is satisfied that the provision made for the applicant either by the deceased person or by the law of intestacy is, in the circumstances, unreasonable.