Wills and Bequests
- Is it permissible to carry out the deceased's will to allocate 50,0 [currency units] to each of the three unmarried children to cover their marriage expenses before dividing the inheritance, and to postpone the division of the house until the mother's death, with the mother remaining in it?
- Do the brothers and sisters of the deceased inherit what their father inherited from their deceased brother's wealth, and what is their share, and does the financial grant or gift that devolved to the deceased after his death fall within the estate?
- Do the deceased's two granddaughters—the daughter of the previously deceased son and the daughter of the previously deceased daughter—automatically inherit by obligatory bequest, or is it a condition for their bequest that the deceased explicitly wills it? And is the deceased's statement "Take care of so-and-so" or "Keep an eye on her" regarding her deceased daughter's daughter considered a will that necessitates a share in the inheritance?
- What is the share of each heir from the inheritance if a man dies leaving three sons, three daughters, and a pregnant wife who gave birth to a daughter after his death?
- How is the inheritance distributed for a deceased person who has two full brothers, three full sisters, a mother, and two wives (one of whom has half the house registered in her name), and a pension, and has no children?
- What is the ruling on dividing an inheritance among a pregnant mother, two sons, two daughters, two grandsons (sons of a son), two granddaughters (daughters of a son), two great-grandsons (sons of a grandson), and two full brothers, given the existence of a son who has been missing for 20 years due to war?
- How is the inheritance of a house divided among a wife, three sons, and five daughters, with one of the sons financially compensating the daughters without selling the house?
- What is the ruling on selling and distributing a building that the deceased bequeathed not to be sold or divided, designating its rent for the needy, in addition to giving his sisters sums from the inheritance, knowing that the will was found two years after the testator's death and the distribution of the inheritance among the sons?
- Do the deceased's niece (daughter of his deceased sister), paternal aunts, and maternal aunts have a share in the inheritance?
- How is the inheritance divided among the father, mother, full brother, and full sister, and who has the right to the rental value of a house rented out by the deceased?
- Is the inheritance to be divided before or after the death of the father's full brother (paternal uncle)?
- What is the share of the mother, the wife, seven sons, and four daughters from the inheritance after the death of their father?
- How is the inheritance divided between a mother, a wife, three sons, a daughter, a grandson, a sister, three paternal half-brothers, two maternal half-sisters, seven paternal nephews, and a granddaughter, knowing that the deceased's mother waived her share in favor of the deceased's children in exchange for them not claiming her inheritance after her death?
- How is the property of a deceased woman, who owns no real estate and has no desire for anyone to inherit from her wealth, to be divided among her mother, four brothers, three sisters, and ten nephews (sons of a full brother)?
- How is inheritance divided among three wives, one of whom gave birth to a daughter, ten sons, nine daughters, and a maternal half-brother?
- What is the daughter's share of the house that her father registered a quarter of its share in her name, and do the deceased's brothers and sisters have a share in the inheritance, and if so, how much, knowing that the daughter is 15 years old?
- How is the inheritance divided among 5 sons, 3 daughters, 2 wives, 4 full sisters, 2 half-sisters (from the father's side), a paternal nephew, and a full paternal cousin, with the presence of a pregnancy for the deceased's son's wife, written wills, and outstanding debts to the Agricultural Development Bank with fixed interest, knowing that the wills are in unregistered contracts?
- How is the estate of a father who died in 1967 to be divided among his heirs, who are his deceased wife (the mother), his other deceased wife who has siblings, three brothers and one sister, bearing in mind that two of the brothers have died and left male and female children?
- Do grandchildren inherit from their grandfather after his death, knowing that their father had died before him?
- Does the mother inherit from her deceased husband's house if it is sold after her death, and is her share distributed among her heirs, including her elderly mother?
- Does the son of the second wife inherit from the deceased son of the first wife - after the death of both parents and both wives - in terms of money and house?
- Is the husband of a deceased maternal aunt (who passed away in 1995 while her father was still alive) entitled to inherit from her, especially since she has children from another marriage?
- How is the estate of a deceased woman to be distributed, given that she left behind a full brother and a full sister, and had written a sales contract to her nephew for seven agricultural Qirats without receiving payment, stipulating that it would take effect after her death? She also verbally willed that the children of her deceased sister should receive an inheritance equal to that of the children of her living sister, knowing that the estate consists of a house sold for 40,000 EGP and 14 Qirats of agricultural land?
- How is the inheritance of the father, the brother who left to seek knowledge and never returned, and the sister who married but did not have children, to be divided? What is the ruling on full siblings disinheriting paternal half-siblings or maternal half-siblings in the event of the death of a full brother or sister? Is a wife's will valid if it dictates that one of her non-full nephews inherits like her children, and can this inheritance be claimed after the death of the legatee?