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How is the inheritance of the father (taxi, pension, and a house inherited by his male heirs) divided among the legal heirs, especially with the daughters refusing to take their share from the price of the car and their desire to take it from its income, and with installments remaining on the new car, and are the amounts paid by the two sons in building the house deducted from the total value of the inheritance before division?

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It is not permissible for daughters to accept being excluded from their father's inheritance, as they are like sons and the rest of the heirs. They share in the car's income and pay its installments. It is not permissible for sons to take the car's income and spend it on their mother without the consent of the other heirs, because the income belongs to all heirs. The father's pension is an inheritance to be divided among the heirs, including the daughters, unless it was a gift, in which case it should be spent as instructed by the gifting authority. If the sons participated with the father in paying the price of the land plot, they are entitled to what they contributed. A gift becomes binding upon death before any modification. The two sons are entitled to two-thirds of the house and the floors built upon it, and the remaining third of the house is to be divided among the father's heirs. The issue is complex and requires being referred to the Sharia courts or presented to scholars to determine the heirs, debts, and bequests.

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