ATP 102. Probate and Administration
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Curriculum
Lesson PB1: Succession Law Foundations and Making a Valid Will 1 lesson
Lesson PB2: Intestacy: Who Inherits and in What Shares 1 lesson
Lesson PB3: Grants of Representation: Petitions, Procedure and Confirmation 1 lesson
Lesson PB4: Duties of Personal Representatives, Disputes and Revocation 1 lesson
Problem questions with worked answers 1 lesson
About this course
Probate and Administration covers what happens to a person’s property on death: making a valid will, distribution on intestacy, obtaining and confirming a grant of representation, and the duties of the personal representatives who administer the estate. The governing law is the Law of Succession Act (Cap 160) and the Probate and Administration Rules, read with Articles 27, 45 and 170 of the Constitution.
The unit covers the scope of the Act, including the position of Muslims and gazetted agricultural land; capacity and the formalities for wills; provision for dependants; the intestacy rules for monogamous and polygamous estates; the types of grant, priority to apply, objections, caveats and confirmation; and the duties of administrators, intermeddling and revocation of grants.
This unit had a 30.5 per cent pass rate in April 2026. Almost every question can be answered from about twenty sections of the Act, and the unit states each of them by number.
What you’ll learn
- • Decide which regime applies to an estate and whether a will is valid under sections 5, 7, 11 and 13
- • Advise dependants on a claim for reasonable provision
- • Distribute an intestate estate, including a polygamous estate under section 40
- • Petition for a grant, handle objections and caveats, and apply for confirmation
- • Advise on the duties of personal representatives, intermeddling and revocation