Wills and Bequests
88 questions
Do the father and his brothers inherit from the estate of their grandmother, who passed away after their father (her son), and they only have paternal aunts?
What is the Sharia ruling on a daughter's objection to her father's will bequeathing her a shop, and her demand for inheritance in the remaining shops, even though the heirs were aware of this will during his lifetime?
How is the inheritance distributed among sisters and paternal aunts in the event of the maternal uncle's death, leaving only daughters and no male siblings, and the death of the paternal grandmother (father's mother)?
How is the sum of a gas station license, discovered forty years after the division of the grandfather's inheritance, to be divided, given that most of the grandfather's sons and daughters have passed away; is it to be divided like the original inheritance, or among the living relatives, and do the children of the deceased have a share?
Do the daughters of the second wife inherit only from their mother, or do the son and daughter from the deceased first wife share in the inheritance with them, this being after the father's death and before the division of his estate?
What is the share of a deceased brother after his father's death and before the division of his estate, and to whom does his estate devolve after his death: is it to his mother and maternal siblings only, or to all of his siblings?
What is the share of each heir from the deceased's estate, are the aforementioned bequests Islamically valid, is it permissible for the father's wife to remain in the same building with the son after the father's death, and is it permissible for the father to write over all of the deceased mother's belongings to his new wife?
What is the ruling on a brother who holds a general power of attorney from his deceased father, but has not obtained a death certificate for the father, claims that the father had no money, and refuses to give the rest of the heirs (children of the deceased second wife) their share of the inheritance?
Is it permissible for a woman who has neither children nor parents to bequeath all her land to her sister's daughter, or to donate it for the construction of a mosque, or to make a will for her sister's daughter for a portion of the land, while she has a brother and the sons of deceased brothers? And how is this land to be divided?
Do the children of my deceased brother inherit from their deceased grandfather?
What is the correct Islamic legal action to take if two of the heirs refuse to divide agricultural land that the grandmother stipulated to be an endowment (waqf)?
What is the ruling on a father making gift certificates for his children (with the male receiving the equivalent of two females' shares), which are not to be disbursed until after his death, with the aim of disinheriting his second wife, knowing that she took enormous sums of money from him and denied it, and that he lives off the profits of these certificates? And what are the Sharia violations in this action and how can they be remedied?
Is it permissible for a father to stipulate in his will that his daughters be deprived of a portion of the inheritance, on the pretext that the value of this portion was borrowed from his male sons?
Is it permissible for the poor, widowed daughter-in-law to take from the will of her deceased mother-in-law, designated for the poor and needy, given that she is in dire straits and cannot adequately provide for her infant?
What is the ruling on a father's will to allocate one-third of his estate for the education and marriage of his children until the age of thirty, and is it religiously obligatory to act upon it?
Are children required to carry out the deceased's oral will, which they did not hear directly from him, and which asks them to reclaim land that has already been sold, based on the testimony of a single person whom they do not trust?