Inheritence---islamic or not?

[peezey 0]

There were a few comments made about life insurance policies yesterday, but I'm wondering if anyone has discussed if they will have a will in the US with their SO based on islamic inheritence law? And for those of you considering buying property and/or moving to a country that abides by islamic inheritence law---Morocco, Egypt---have you considered what this means should one or the other of you die?

[Mrs. Forgetful 2]

To be honest... I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I undertand wills, and inheritence, but as for the Islamic way of it, no clue. Can you please explain or give a site where I can better figure this out. Thanks!

[Jenn! 918]

We haven't discussed or even thought about that. Considering that neither of us knows anything about islamic inheritance law, I suppose we will need to look into that. Thanks for the reminder! Is this only an issue if we decide to buy property in Morocco? I can't see how it would pertain to anything here in the U.S. for us.

[peezey 0]

For property in the US, it would pertain to those whose husbands would like to disperse their property at death according to Islamic inheritence rules, rather than the inheritence laws of your state. Should he want to go with islamic inheritence in the US, a will would be required, just like any difference in inheritence from state law.

Yes, it would automatically apply should you have property in Morocco.

[ya falaha! 0]

We haven't discussed it. It wasn't discussed with my ex either. My ex believes that life insurance is haram so never had it. I didn't work during the marriage so I didn't have it either.

[peezey 0]

I'm not talking about insurance policies as much as I'm talking about joint real property, ie, savings, 401k, homes, cars, investments.

[Mrs. Forgetful 2]

You still didn't answer my question. What is it? How does it work? What's so different between the two ways?

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Yup, definately something to be discussed. It's good to become generally familiar with inheretence laws in your state anyways once you get married. Imagine if you pass on, and you're significant other is completely in the dark about what to do estate wise.

It's a good idea to become lay out a plan and talk about what would happen if either of you pass away. Heck, it's a good idea to lay out a plan about what would happen in any emergency situation.

Does he want to be buried in his home country?

Does he want to be buried in an islamic manner, within 24 hours of death?

How about a funeral?

How do the inheretence laws work in your state if you die intestate (without a will)? In Minnesota, if you don't own any real estate and your estate is worth less than $20,000, if a spouse dies, all his or her property is automatically transfered to the surviving spouse.

Is your bank accounts held in joint tenancy, so that it automatically goes to the surviving spouse, or is it tenency in common, and may be locked up until the estate is probated (gone through the process of distributing the estate after death)?

[ya falaha! 0]

Since my husband or I do not really "own" anything it's not an issue. He owns property in Egypt through his family (he'll inherit it at some point). I don't expect a piece of that if we divorce.

[peezey 0]

Inheritence is for death, not divorce.

There is no easy way to describe islamic inheritence. It all depends on who is alive when the man dies. If there are no children, the wife gets 1/4, the rest is disbursed to other living relatives. If there are children, the wife gets 1/8, the rest disbursed to children, male children first, then other living relatives.

There are tons of different scenarios. Grandparents, parents, cousins can and do inherit.

[ya falaha! 0]

Yes, I know roughly about Islamic inheritance. I know the basics but I'm no scholar or anything. If I knew exactly what my husband owned (through his family) I could better answer your question.

Sorry I brought up divorce, my bad.

[doodlebug 3]

I have no clue.

I should probably figure all of this out before considering putting his name on anything, like my house, credit cards, etc.

Anyone have a good link, like Janine was asking about?

[Mrs. Forgetful 2]

I wonder if that happened with my husbands family when his father passed last year. As far as I know his mother is holding everything and his brother is doing the finances and books of all their property and stores. But as far as I know as soon as we get to Morocco, everything will be turned over to my husband. But then we have the other problem of how he's going to do everything from here.

[Jenn! 918]

Yup, definately something to be discussed. It's good to become generally familiar with inheretence laws in your state anyways once you get married. Imagine if you pass on, and you're significant other is completely in the dark about what to do estate wise.

It's a good idea to become lay out a plan and talk about what would happen if either of you pass away. Heck, it's a good idea to lay out a plan about what would happen in any emergency situation.

Does he want to be buried in his home country?

Does he want to be buried in an islamic manner, within 24 hours of death?

How about a funeral?

How do the inheretence laws work in your state if you die intestate (without a will)? In Minnesota, if you don't own any real estate and your estate is worth less than $20,000, if a spouse dies, all his or her property is automatically transfered to the surviving spouse.

Is your bank accounts held in joint tenancy, so that it automatically goes to the surviving spouse, or is it tenency in common, and may be locked up until the estate is probated (gone through the process of distributing the estate after death)?

You're definitely right, rahma. I suppose once we really have something to call our own we will have to start thinking about this stuff. But I hate thinking about death and funeral arrangements. I don't even know what I would want for myself, except to just never die of course.

[doodlebug 3]

Yup, definately something to be discussed. It's good to become generally familiar with inheretence laws in your state anyways once you get married. Imagine if you pass on, and you're significant other is completely in the dark about what to do estate wise.

It's a good idea to become lay out a plan and talk about what would happen if either of you pass away. Heck, it's a good idea to lay out a plan about what would happen in any emergency situation.

Does he want to be buried in his home country?

Does he want to be buried in an islamic manner, within 24 hours of death?

How about a funeral?

How do the inheretence laws work in your state if you die intestate (without a will)? In Minnesota, if you don't own any real estate and your estate is worth less than $20,000, if a spouse dies, all his or her property is automatically transfered to the surviving spouse.

Is your bank accounts held in joint tenancy, so that it automatically goes to the surviving spouse, or is it tenency in common, and may be locked up until the estate is probated (gone through the process of distributing the estate after death)?

You're definitely right, rahma. I suppose once we really have something to call our own we will have to start thinking about this stuff. But I hate thinking about death and funeral arrangements. I don't even know what I would want for myself, except to just never die of course.

I had to make out a will and a living will ( i think that's the term) before I left due to unheard of pressure from my parents and ex husband and it suuuucked. I cried through the whole thing.