Answer to Question #203119 in Management for tetelo

Question

Implications for reforms to the concept of ‘descendant’ in terms of the Reform of Customary Law of Succession and Regulation of Related matters does NOT include that 

(1) a person who is an ascendant in terms of the Act; namely those of the blood relations in the ascending line as well as adoptive parents.

(2) a person who, during the lifetime of the deceased was accepted as their child in terms of customary law.

(3) a woman from a substitute marriage such as for seed-raising.

(4) a woman married by another in terms of customary law for purposes of bearing children for the deceased’s household.

Answer 1

The reform of the customary law of succession does not include (3) a woman from a substitute marriage such as for seed raising.