Section 29 of the Law of Succession Act, defines the term “dependant” by identifying the categories of persons who in law are deemed to be dependants.
• The wife or wives and former wife or wives of the deceased.
• Children of the deceased.
• Parents, grandparents and step parents as were being maintained by the deceased before death.
• Grand children, step children and children whom the deceased had taken into his family as his own as were being maintained by the deceased before death.
• Brothers and sisters who were being maintained by the deceased.
• The husband if he was being maintained by his wife before her death.
• Half brothers and half sisters who were being maintained by the deceased before death.