Section 37: Where intestate has left child or children only
The Succession Act · Federal Acts · Part V · in_force
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Where the intestate has left surviving him a child or children, but no more remote lineal descendant through a deceased child, the property shall belong to his surviving child, if there is only one, or shall be equally divided among all his surviving children.
Related sections
Section 36: Rules of distributionSection 38: Where intestate has left no child, but grandchild or grandchildrenSection 35: Rights of widowerSection 39: Where intestate has left only great-grandchildren or remoter lineal descendantsSection 34: Where intestate has left no widow, and where he has left no kindredSection 40: Where intestate leaves lineal descendants not all in same degree of kindred to him, and those through whom the more remote are descended are dead
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