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Distinction between a successor and an administrator
Factors a family may consider in choosing a customary successor
How a successor is appointed
Nature of a successor's title
Position of the law on the abdication of the role of a successor
Role of the customary successor
The duty of a successor
The position of a successor in relation to property which he has inherited by succession at Customary Law
The rule that a customary successor stands in a fiduciary relationship with the family; purport of the rule
The rule that only the members of the family can appoint a successor
The rule that the successor is entitled to the custody, management and administration of ancestral family properties
Whether a customary successor can appoint another member of the family to exercise the office on his behalf
Whether a customary successor can dispose the property of a deceased member of the family under his will
Whether a customary successor can sue in respect of family property
Whether a customary successor who refuses to perform the customary rites necessarily required of a successor renders himself liable to be removed; whether refusal to pour libation is enough
Whether a person renounced his right as customary successor where he agreed that letters should be given to another person
Whether any person has a vested right to be appointed successor
Whether any subsequent property acquired by a person who inherits property as a customary successor is family property
Whether succession in Ghana is based upon a person’s religion
Whether the consent and concurrence of the principal members of the family is required where property in the possession of the successor is to be alienated or encumbered
Whether the customary successor can step into the shoes of the deceased in all matters
Whether the customary successor has title to the property of the deceased
Whether the customary successor is necessarily linked up with the property of the deceased
Whether the head of the family is the head of the immediate family of the deceased
Whether the head of the wider family can interfere with the customary successor's administration of the estate
Whether the office of customary successor entails reciprocity of rights and duties or privileges and obligations
Whether the successor is the proper person to take charge and control of, and to litigate over the property of the deceased, not the head of the main or principal family
Whether the surviving spouse of a partner who died intestate becomes his or her customary successor
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