KABALE: Legal Officer Urges Parents to Include All Children in Wills

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KABALE: Legal Officer Urges Parents to Include All Children in Wills

Monica Muraza, Legal Officer with the Uganda Law Society Legal Aid Project, has criticized parents who deliberately exclude children born out of wedlock when drafting their wills. Speaking on Wednesday to members of the Fathers’ Fellowship at Rukore Church of Uganda Archdeaconry in Ryakarimira Town Council, Kabale District, Muraza emphasized the critical importance of writing wills before death. She urged fathers to embrace proper estate plannin…