When a person dies, the family must report the death to the Registrar of Births and Deaths. They must do this as soon as the family gets a death certificate from the doctor.  > 

When you register a death with the Department of Home Affairs, you will be issued with an abridged death certificate.  > 

When you die, your estate is divided between your family or the people that you want to have inherit from you.  > 

This act aims to consolidate and amend the law relating to:the liquidation and distribution of the estates of deceased persons, the administration of the property of miners and persons under curatorship, and of derelict estatesregulate the rights of beneficiaries under mutual wills made by any two or more personsamend the Mental Disorders Act, 1916 and to provide for incidental matters.  > 

This bill aims to amend the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, so as to delete certain definitions, substitute other definitions and insert a new definition; and to substitute obsolete references. It also makes the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, applicable throughout the Republic, repeal corresponding laws in force in the areas of the former Republics of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Vends and Ciskei. It amends the Insolvency Act, 1936, so as to alter certain amounts; to amend the Age of Majority Act, 1972, so as to delete an obsolete reference and to provide for matters connected therewith.  > 

This Act amends the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992, so as to further regulate changing the particulars on documents held by the Department of Home Affairs. It also provides for the assumption of another surname.  >