Does the second wife, who married a man addicted to alcohol and who died a month and a half after the marriage, inherit, given the presence of a first wife and children, and is she entitled to her deferred mahr?

We deduce from the question that the man had two wives: one he married twenty years before his his death, and the other he married a month and a half before his death. Both inherit one-eighth of his estate, based on the Almighty’s saying: "But if you have a child, then for them is one eighth of what you leave."

The short duration of the marriage does not affect the second wife's right to inheritance and her other rights, as long as the marriage contract was valid and the man was in full possession of his mental faculties. His habitual drunkenness or disobedience does not affect this if he was conscious at the moment of the contract. She is his wife and inherits from him even if he had not consummated the marriage with her.

The deferred Mahr (dowry) of the first wife becomes due upon his death and is to be paid from the estate before its division, along with other rights.