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The Taiwan Strait has been divided into two political entities for more than 60 years since 1949, the relationship of citizen between strait has changed dramatically and become more complicated and normalized as well day by day. The succession issues has now transformed from politically hostile standpoint to the one of economic cooperation. In fact, due to the implementation of “Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area”, the succession issues between strait become unrealistic and sometimes unfair in Taiwan. For example, the article 67 Paragraph 1 “Where any of the people of the Mainland Area inherits a deceased's estate in the Taiwan Area according to the laws, the total amount of the estate any of the people of the Mainland Area may inherit shall not exceed two million New Taiwan Dollars. The excess shall be distributed to the other heirs of the same order for inheritance in the Taiwan Area; if there is no other heir of the same order in the Taiwan Area, it shall be distributed to the heirs of the next order in the Taiwan Area; if there is no single heir in the Taiwan Area, it shall be taken by the Treasury.”, and Paragraph 4 “Where there is any real property in the deceased's estate referred to in Paragraph 1, the right of inheritance of any of the people of the Mainland Area in respect of such real property shall be converted into a dollar amount except for the real property dependent upon by any heir in the Taiwan Area as residence, which shall not be inherited by any heir in the Mainland Area, and the dollar amount of which shall not be included in the total amount of the deceased's estate in determining the share to which any heir in the Mainland Area is entitled.” have limited the right of inheritance unfairly to the Mainland Area’s people, in addition, although article 67-1 has declared when all the heirs of the estate are the people of the Mainland Area, it need to request a court to designate the National Property Bureau, Ministry of Finance as the estate administrator, meanwhile article 68 still limit the estate of verterans who come to Taiwan with the government of R.O.C after civil war in 1949 dies with no heirs, with heirs unknown, or only with heirs unable to administer the estate has to be administed by designated government unit. Such limitations has affected the most of the veterans who came to Taiwan with R.O.C government after civil war in 1949 and ever since without or could not have family in Taiwan. My parent came to Taiwan with R.O.C government in 1949 and such group of people usually live in the same community and that made me familiarize the way they look at and think about things very much, coincidently, my current job also requires me dealing with succession issues for those veterans. All those experiences gave me motivation to research on the issues and I do hope the conclusion could bring up some hints to our government if they are willing to face the truth and change.
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