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    "id": 1106095,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "force or by coercion a surviving spouse or child from the matrimonial home or any unlawful dealing with the deceased person’s estate. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Bill also seeks to align the definition of terms such as ‘marriage,’ ‘spouse’ and ‘matrimonial property’ to other recent laws such as The Marriage Act, 2014, The Matrimonial Property Act, 2013, as these have an implication when it comes to dealing with the estate of spouses. Clause 3 of the Bill seeks to remove former wives and husbands being maintained by a wife immediately prior to the death of the wife from the ambit of the term “dependent” when it comes to succession matters. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, Clause 4 of the Bill seeks to align the Act to the Constitution by removing community land from the application of the law of succession. Community land belongs to community. I come from Isiolo County, and as you know, we own our land as community land. We should not have a situation where community land is put in succession laws of individuals and, therefore, intermeddling it and bringing confusion. This is because that land belongs to the community and not individuals that can pass it on to their spouses or dependants. Therefore, I call upon Senators to support this Bill to give equal rights to our mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces and aunties upon demise of relatives. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to move and invite Sen. Were to second this Bill."
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