Abstract There has been minimal compliance with Ghana’s Intestate Succession Act, 1985, (PNDC Law 111) especially by communities in rural areas whose lives are governed almost exclusively by customary law. This is because the state and customary legal systems have failed to reconcile their perceptions of law and legal responsibilities. Drawing on legal pluralism as a practical guiding framework for analyzing the relationship between states and customary legal systems, and focusing on the law of intestate succession, I argue that in order for legal reforms to be embraced, especially by rural dwellers, the state must adopt what may be termed, the mutual concession approach to legal reforms, a structured and principled discretionary approach that seeks to balance the valued interests of both legal systems, and which promises to be more agreeable to rural dwellers in ways that ensure compliance with state law.

中文翻译：

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“在合法复数的加纳改革无遗嘱继承法”

摘要 加纳 1985 年的《无遗嘱继承法》（PNDC 法 111）很少遵守，特别是生活几乎完全受习惯法管辖的农村地区社区。这是因为国家和习惯法系统未能调和他们对法律和法律责任的看法。以法律多元化作为分析国家与习惯法体系关系的实用指导框架，并以无遗嘱继承法为重点，我认为，为了让法律改革得到接受，尤其是农村居民，国家必须采用可以称为法律改革的相互让步方法，一种旨在平衡两个法律体系的重要利益的结构化和有原则的酌情处理方法，