How is the monetary inheritance divided among the legal heirs, with an example of an amount of 100,0 Riyals?
If the heirs are limited to the wife and children, then the wife receives one-eighth of the wealth, and the remainder is divided among the children, with the male receiving the share of two females, in accordance with His, the Almighty's, saying: "Allah instructs you concerning your children: for the male, what is equal to the share of two females" and His, the Almighty's, saying: "But if you have a child, then for them [wives] is one-eighth of what you leave, after any bequest you [may have] made or debt." So, if the deceased left 100,0 and a wife, 3 sons, and 3 daughters, the wife would take 12,500, each daughter would take 9,722.2, and each son would take 19,444.4.
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