Wills and Bequests
118 questions
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)?
Are girls entitled to claim the house that their father verbally bequeathed to them in the presence of witnesses, or does a verbal will not apply in the division of inheritance?
Am I obligated to return the money I took from one-quarter of my father's estate, which was bequeathed for charitable deeds and the needy, knowing that I took it due to my need to build my home?
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 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?
What is the ruling on differentiating between children by leaving a will with a sum of money for one of them to the exclusion of another, even after the testator's death?
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?
Is a mother's statement to her daughter that the gold in her possession is hers alone, to the exclusion of her siblings—as compensation for not receiving equal gifts as them—considered a valid and enforceable bequest (wasiya) in Islamic law?
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?
Is the deceased father's will to allocate one-third of his wealth for the marriage of his minor children after his death valid, and does it clear his conscience, and are the elder siblings obligated to marry off their younger orphaned siblings?
Do grandchildren inherit from their grandfather after his death, knowing that their father had died before him?
Is the mother obligated to distribute the price of the necklace bequeathed by her grandmother, to cover funeral and condolence expenses, among the deceased sons and daughters of her maternal uncles and aunts, or can she dispose of it herself, especially since she is her grandmother's sole heir?
Is the father's will to allocate one-third of his estate to the poor and needy obligatory, given that the heirs of his deceased son are wealthy, and his daughters' share is small and they are poor?
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 it permissible for a father to dedicate one-third of his estate (a house) to one of his sons for the purpose of offering sacrifices from it, while the remaining income from the house stays with this son to the exclusion of the other heirs, and is this considered an injustice to the rest of the heirs, and what is the right of the heirs to object to this dedication?
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?
How is the estate of a residential property owned by a deceased person divided, with some of his children residing in it and others living elsewhere, and with the presence of rented apartments? Are the apartments inhabited by the children exempted on the grounds of their expenditure on them and their furnishing? And what is the ruling on a father's promise to one of his children to allocate an apartment to him before his death?
Is it permissible in Islamic law to keep an inheritance suspended or to refuse to distribute it according to Islamic law in the event of the death of both parents and the presence of many children, and what is the ruling if some of the heirs wish to take their lawful share?