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Circumstances where the general rule that only the head of the family can sue will not apply

Effect of interference with family property without consent of the other members of the family

Effect of the sale of family property by one principal member, to the exclusion of other principal members and the head of the family

How family property can be determined

How family property is created

How ownership of family property can be proved

How to rebut the presumption in favour of family property

Nature of family property

Nature of interest acquired by a family member who occupies family property

Nature of the right of an individual member of a family in family property

Onus on a person claiming to be exclusively entitled to family property

Principles governing the sale of family property

The indivisible nature of family property

The position of the law on family property

The position of the law on the best way to alienate family property

The principle that all members of a family have a joint interest in family property

The principle that once a family property always a family property

The principle that where a member of a family uses his own funds to recover lost family property, the property will revert to its family character

The rule that if there is going to be any important dealing with family property all the branches of the family must be consulted

The rule that the onus is on the party claiming family property as his personal land to prove that he is in fact entitled to the family land against all other family members

Ways in which family property can be established

What constitutes family property

What does not constitute substantial contribution to make a house family property

What the concept of family property entails

When a house will be deemed family home

Whether a family head can register family property in his name

Whether a family member can sue to protect family property

Whether a property acquired by a person with the assistance of members of his family is family property

Whether a property acquired by the occupant of a stool with the assistance of members of his family is family property

Whether an individual member's interest in family property is alienable

Whether any action brought to defend family property will only succeed upon proof that there was a head of family who was deliberately for one reason or the other refusing to act to save the property

Whether any member of the family is competent to bring an action to protect the interest of the family in respect of family property

Whether every support and assistance rendered by family makes every self-acquired property family property

Whether family property not partitioned or allotted can be appropriated by the head of the family

Whether family property which has been solely improved by a member of the family loses its character as such

Whether possession or acts of possession over family property can ripen into exclusive ownership in favour of any person

Whether property acquired with the proceeds of family property is itself family property

Whether the child of a deceased can collect rents from tenants occupying family property without reference to the head of the family

Whether the first child is the one responsible for managing family property

Whether the residence of a family member on land makes the land family property

Whether the rule that the head of family is the competent person to sue in respect of family property is inflexible

Whether the self-acquired properties of a successor must always be held to be family properties simply because of the succession

Whether there can be devolution on intestacy of family property

Whether there is a presumption in favour of family property

Who manages family property

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