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In Kenya, when you die without a valid will, your estate does not vanish. The law simply steps in and decides who gets what. Whether the outcome matches what you would have wanted is another matter entirely. This is called dying intestate. If you had no will, or your will only covered part of your […]

You register your mark  so that no one else runs off with your brand while you are busy building it. Here is how the whole KIPI process plays out, step by step. Step 1. The Search Before branding, ideally you should take sometime and check whether someone else already owns it. This is called a

You would think admission to the bar would feel like the grand finale. The curtain call of the whole ordeal. I imagined the moment often enough. I would walk into the Supreme Court ceremonial hall in a well-tailored suit, proper colonial wig perched, gown flowing, those cheeky knock-off red bottoms, and hair snatched under a

Writing a will is not exactly the sort of thing most people look forward to. It involves sitting down and admitting that one day you will not be around, and that someone else will be rifling through your belongings and trying to make sense of what you wanted. But here is the truth, dying with

A prenup is not just for billionaires, trust fund kids, or people who spend their weekends on yachts named after their pets. It is for anyone entering a marriage with a shred of common sense and at least one asset to their name. That could be land, a business, a house, or even the boda

In Kenya leaving your spouse is less about parting ways peacefully and more about building a legal case. Kenya operates a fault-based divorce system (read my thoughts on this here). That means you cannot walk into court say you both gave it a good shot and wish each other luck. No, you must point a

Let us begin with a simple truth. Tuberculosis is boring. At least, that is how the world seems to treat it. No Netflix drama. No documentaries with dramatic piano music. Just one and a half million people quietly dying every year because apparently we cannot be bothered. Enter John Green. Author, internet dad, professional feeler

Someone is being violent or emotionally abusive and the children are getting caught in the middle and you are thinking about separation or divorce, but the house is still shared, the tension is unbearable and you are wondering whether you really have to live like this while waiting for the court to catch up. The

You cannot walk into a courtroom with a stack of receipts from 2018, a phone gallery full of screenshots and one handwritten budget scrawled on the back of a supermarket receipt and expect an award that would cover private school in Switzerland. Child support applications do not work that way. Whether you have an advocate

To recap, my last article was about how not to prepare for the bar exam. The chaos paid off, because I passed the Bar exam! Passing the bar exam on the first go feels like winning the Olympic gold of law school. Not just in theory, either. It is the one moment everyone says is