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<dc:title>The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1988</dc:title>
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<dc:modified>2011-07-04</dc:modified>
<dc:subject scheme="SIheading">SUCCESSION, SCOTLAND</dc:subject>
<dc:description>Where a person dies intestate leaving a spouse, the surviving spouse’s prior rights in terms of sections 8 and 9 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 are at present as follows:—Where the deceased had an interest as owner or tenant in a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right—where the value of the interest does not exceed £50,000, to the interest (or in certain cases to a sum equal to its value); orin any other case, to the sum of £50,000.Where the deceased owned the furniture and plenishings of a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right—where the value of the furniture and plenishings does not exceed £10,000, to the whole furniture and plenishings; orin any other case, to such part of the furniture and plenishings, to a value not exceeding £10,000, as the surviving spouse may choose.The surviving spouse has a prior right—where the deceased left issue, to the sum of £15,000; orwhere the deceased left no issue, to the sum of £25,000.</dc:description>
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