Family Provision Act 1969

An order under section 8 or 9A shall specify the amount and nature of the provision (if any) to be made and may specify conditions, restrictions and limitations subject to which the provision is to be made that the Supreme Court thinks fit to impose.

Unless the Supreme Court otherwise orders, the burden of the provision ordered by the court to be made for the benefit of a person shall, subject to subsection (3), be borne between the persons beneficially entitled to the estate of the deceased person (other than the person or persons in whose favour an order or orders under this Act is or are made), in proportion to the values of their respective interests in the estate.

If persons are successively entitled to estates or interests in any property that is settled by the will of the deceased person, those estates and interests shall not, unless the Supreme Court otherwise orders, be valued separately but the proportion of the provision required by subsection (2) to be borne by those persons out of those estates and interests shall be raised or charged against the corpus of that property.