What Paper 3 covers

The scope (from the LPC syllabus)

• Drafting wills: proper consultation and instruction-taking, plain-language drafting (no archaic precedent language), glossaries for complex concepts like massing, and interpreting older wills
• Living wills — including the open question of the National Health Act's treatment of them
• Testate and intestate succession: the Wills Act 7 of 1953, Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987, Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act, and succession under customary law (the reform legislation of 2009)
• Trusts in wills: applying the Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988
• Administration of deceased estates: the Administration of Estates Act 66 of 1965, from reporting the estate through to the final liquidation and distribution account
• Estate duty: the Estate Duty Act 45 of 1955
• Contesting a will

A paper that rewards practitioners

This content is bread-and-butter attorney work, and it's taught here by practitioners who draft wills and administer estates. Case-law currency matters: the syllabus expects candidates to be up to date with the latest High Court, SCA and Constitutional Court decisions on wills and estates to within a week of the exam.