Category: Last Will and Testament
Let’s start with the Qur’an: It has been ordained upon you, when death is near to one of you, leaving wealth behind, to make a will in favor of parents and close relatives, impartially. This is incumbent upon the...
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The Islamic law of inheritance is found in the Qur’an and in the traditions of the Prophet (PBUH). The Prophet (PBUH) said that the law of inheritance is half of all knowledge. The Islamic law of inheritance is a...
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Taʿsīb mean residuary heirs (taking by taʿsīb). The residuary heirs take the balance of the estate after the predetermined or prescribed shares. For example, if the survivors are a mother and one son: the mother’s prescribed share is 1/6,...
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Radd literally means “returned to.” When the total of the prescribed shares does not exhaust the entire estate, the balance left in the estate will be distributed according to either the Islamic law doctrine of radd (increasing the shares...
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While taʿsīb and radd apply when distributing the balance left over in the estate after the prescribed shares, ‘awl applies to decrease the shares proportionately when the total prescribed shares is more than 100% of the estate. For example,...
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Father; Paternal Grandfather; Paternal Great-Grandfather; Paternal Grandmother; Paternal Great-Grandmother; Son; Son’s Son; Son’s Son’s Son; Full Brother; Paternal Brother; Maternal Brother; Full Nephew; Full Nephew’s Son; Paternal Full Uncle; Paternal Full Uncle’s Son; Paternal Full Uncle’s Son’s Son; Paternal...
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Wife or husband. Only a legal marriage results in entitlement to inheritance. Generally, an Islamic marriage contracted abroad is valid in the United States as long as it complied with the law of the country where the marriage was...
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In the Qu’ran, Allah directed Muslims to make a will: It has been ordained upon you, when death is near one of you, leaving wealth behind, to make a will in favor of parents and close relatives, impartially. This...
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Wasiyat in Quran Islamic wills, also known as wasiyat, are referred to in the holy Quran. “It has been ordained upon you, when death is near one of you, leaving wealth behind, to make a will in...
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There are 9 community-property states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. The 41 remaining states are equitable-distribution states. In community-property states, all property a person acquires and income he or she earns during the marriage...
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