Legal advice: Succession rights if born out of wedlock

Being born out of wedlock does not mean a person's entitlement is any less and the court will take a prudent approach when apportioning their share.

Dear Karen,

I am farming at home all the time with my father. He is in his early 80s. I have two sisters who my parents looked after and set them up with a deposit for a house and money. I have been told by my father that the farmlands are willed to me. My mother died a few years ago and the land is solely in my father’s name. Recently, the entire family got an awful shock as it turns out my father had a child out of wedlock with another lady before he married my mother. She has met with my father and he has acknowledged her as his daughter.