PREMIUM Only son? Think again: Court says daughters have equal claim to estate News 17 min ago

The Magistrate’s Court said the succession law does not recognise a superior entitlement to administer an estate based on gender, with a male child having no greater claim than a female child simply because he is a son.

The court found no legal basis for Mr Gitau's claim that being the only male child he is entitled to sole control of the administration.

The court made the ruling while rejecting Samwel Gitau’s bid to become the sole administrator of his father Grishom Kitai’s estate on grounds that he was the only male child.