The Scottish government has launched a consultation on its laws of succession, its second in four years.

The government is seeking views on a new approach to reform of intestate succession and on cohabitants' rights in intestacy, as well as on a number of discrete succession issues.

The 2015 consultation, which addressed recommendations made by the Scottish Law Commission, showed strong differences of public opinion on a significant number of issues making it difficult to progress, according to The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

This new consultation paper focuses on intestacy, for which Sco...