What new amendments to the Succession Act mean

Parliament has passed amendments to the Succession Act bringing in new provisions and aligning the law with recent court judgments that challenged the constitutionality of some sections.
Clause 21 of the Bill amended Section 2 of the Act by way of repeal, to remove distinctions between children, who were classified as those born in and out of wedlock for intestate estates.
Intestate refers to an estate where the deceased left no will.
In the new law, 20 per cent of a deceased’s property will not be shared, but left to see minors, if any, through school.
Clause 24 also now implies any parent of a minor may, by will, appoint a guardian, ending the man only affair that this activity previously was.
The passing of clause 31 now means all witnesses will write their names and sign against every page of a will, for it to be valid in law, giving it an extra fool-proof layer.
The law also creates the offence of evicting or attempting to evict from a residential holding lineal descendant or dependent relative who is entitled to occupy the residential holding.
Offenders will now suffer a fine of Shs1.36m or imprisonment for up to 7 years or both imprisonment and fine.
Disposing of residential property will now contend with the consent of lineal descendants and the living spouse, a move activists say will end the habit of rendering homeless especially widows, after the death of their spouses because of family members ganging up to dispose of residential property.
Section 27 of the Act, which dealt with percentages of shares that are obtained by lineal descendants or relatives was declared unconstitutional in the case of Advocacy for Women in Uganda Vs Attorney General, necessitating the amendment to provide for a new legal regime that conforms with the court ruling, whose substance was that the law discriminates against women,
Clause 17, the most contentious, related to the right of divorced wives to stake a claim to the estate.
The new legislation now says a woman, whether divorced, has a claim to the estate, especially on things achieved while the marriage subsisted.