Inheritance and wasiya

Contents

• The wasiya (will): status and limits
• Heirs, fixed shares and hajb
• Dividing shares: qasm and aoul
• Debts and funeral expenses
• Shares of children and descendants
• Brothers and sisters as heirs
• Radd (return) and concurrence of shares
• Special cases in succession
• 'Asaba: agnates and the estate's residue
• Dividing assets in practice: indivision and development
• Bequest in favor of an heir: wasiya li-warith
• The Muslim's succession in non-Muslim lands
• The spouse's share: what do husband and wife inherit?
• Entangled successions: when the heir dies before division
• Distant relatives (dhawu al-arham): do they inherit?
• The wasi: the estate executor
• The deceased's accounts, insurances and digital assets
• International successions: assets in several countries
• The mother and ascendants: shares and rules
• Renouncing inheritance and share transfer
• Matrimonial regime and own assets: what enters the succession?
• Dividing rural lands: musha' and homeland properties