left my wife several years ago, to live with another woman. My wife refuses to co-operate over divorce. We have grown up children . I have not made a will. What would happen to my estate if I died ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 12 May, 2022As long as a man who has left home to cohabit with another woman remains legally married to his wife , and has not made a will, she, and not the woman he lives with, will inherit his property, according to the terms of the 1965 Inheritance Law . His children will also be his heirs, again according to the terms of the 1965 Inheritance Law. This legislation contains a condition concerning the eligibility of a cohabitee to have rights to a deceased cohabitee’s estate as a common-law spouse -neither of them can be married to anyone else at the time the deceased passes away. In the above case, the man is married which would prevent his cohabitee from inheriting as his common-law wife if he died.