An eight-year old Kenyan child is the newest millionaire in town after the judge granted her an eight million estate that belonged to her late grandmother.
The child who has been identified as RMM as part of the court’s protection of minors, will now benefit from her late grandmother’s estate since her father had also passed on.
RMM was the only child of her father who was an ex National Youth Service and one of the six children of her grandmother who
Apparently RMM’s relatives went ahead to share their mother’s multimillion estate without including her into the share.
The decision was challenged by RMM through her mother, who told the High Court that her husband’s siblings had failed to inform her and the court that there was another beneficiary in the succession case.
The estate included two plots in Narumoru town, Nyeri, with rental houses, a parcel of land in Juja, two plots in Mavoko, an unspecified amount of money in Postbank and Equity Bank and gratuity at NYS.
Justice Teresia Matheka agreed with the minor’s mother and ruled that according to Law of Succession Act, “a grandchild is a direct heir to the estate of the grandparent where the parent predeceased the grandparent.”
“The minor herein got into the shoes of her deceased’s father upon his demise, acquiring equal rights with the respondents to apply for the letters of administration as they fall in the same degree of consanguinity,” said judge added.
RMM will now get an equal share of the multimillion estate but will do so through her mother until she reaches adult age (18 years).1/1 Justice Teresia Matheka grants 8-year old Kenyan child control of millions in her late grandmother’s estate