Cabinet to consider bill stopping financial benefit from spouse murder
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An opposition bill to prevent a husband or wife who kills their partner to benefit financially from the sale of the family home may win backing from the Government today.
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will raise the Civil Liability (Prevention of Benefits from Homicide) Bill at a meeting of the Cabinet today.
The bill was introduced by Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesperson Jim O’Callaghan based on recommendations from the Law Reform Commission.
The Government is likely to amend Mr O’Callaghan’s bill to include people who were involved in the finding a third party to physically perform the offence, The Irish Times reports.
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