Inheritence---islamic or not?

[peezey 0]

my husband has a house in syria. his family can have it if he dies. what good will it do me anyway? we have already descussed that. if he has life insurance and stuff here then it will be mine...what good would it do his family there?

What good will it do his family there? You mean if he dies, has $1million policy, has a will that says you get 1/4 and the rest goes to his parents, you're telling me $750,000 won't do them any good there?

first of all my husband doesnt have a million dollar policy and i can assure u he never will unless i pay for it because he is too cheap to pay for a policy. he has now a $10,000 policy thru work and i have another $5,000 that i buy for him thru my work. that is his only assets in the united states to date. if he were to die today then some of that money would be used to send his dead body back to syria for burial.

secondly he has more assests in syria then he does here. so trust me im sure his family would not send me a penny of it if he died. the value of his house and his life insurance over there (10,000) would go to them.

as i see it i would not even get a 1/4.

anyway im not muslim so i guess we would not be doing it the islamic way anyway.

Your religion has nothing to do with this. The question is, does your husband want to create a will in the US so that his property in the US is divided per islamic inheritence laws upon his death? You don't have to be muslim for him to create a will as he chooses.

[Mrs. Forgetful 2]

Ok three questions,

1. If your SO makes a will in the US will that be accepted in the SOs country too?

2. What about health insurance? Is it haraam to have health insurance if it's haraam to have life insurance?

3. What happens if the SO doesn't have any living relatives except the wife? Does the wife recieve all of the inheritence?

[Donna A 4]

my husband has a house in syria. his family can have it if he dies. what good will it do me anyway? we have already descussed that. if he has life insurance and stuff here then it will be mine...what good would it do his family there?

What good will it do his family there? You mean if he dies, has $1million policy, has a will that says you get 1/4 and the rest goes to his parents, you're telling me $750,000 won't do them any good there?

first of all my husband doesnt have a million dollar policy and i can assure u he never will unless i pay for it because he is too cheap to pay for a policy. he has now a $10,000 policy thru work and i have another $5,000 that i buy for him thru my work. that is his only assets in the united states to date. if he were to die today then some of that money would be used to send his dead body back to syria for burial.

secondly he has more assests in syria then he does here. so trust me im sure his family would not send me a penny of it if he died. the value of his house and his life insurance over there (10,000) would go to them.

as i see it i would not even get a 1/4.

anyway im not muslim so i guess we would not be doing it the islamic way anyway.

Your religion has nothing to do with this. The question is, does your husband want to create a will in the US so that his property in the US is divided per islamic inheritence laws upon his death? You don't have to be muslim for him to create a will as he chooses.

the question was...islamic or not. so i guess the answer is not. cuz he dont care where his assets go after death. he was leaving them all too me but i told him...what is in syria will go to his family and what he has here will go to me and he said "as u like"

[sarah and hicham 3]

Ok three questions,

1. If your SO makes a will in the US will that be accepted in the SOs country too?

2. What about health insurance? Is it haraam to have health insurance if it's haraam to have life insurance?

3. What happens if the SO doesn't have any living relatives except the wife? Does the wife recieve all of the inheritence?

Janine, I believe for #2 that life insurance and health insurance are quite different. Health insurance is to cover one while they're alive (medical bills etc.) and life insurance is to have a policy in order to help the family pay for funeral and living expenses after someone is deceased. As far as I know health insurance is not haram, I know that Hicham's family has it in Morocco.

[peezey 0]

Ok three questions,

1. If your SO makes a will in the US will that be accepted in the SOs country too?

2. What about health insurance? Is it haraam to have health insurance if it's haraam to have life insurance?

3. What happens if the SO doesn't have any living relatives except the wife? Does the wife recieve all of the inheritence?

1. No, it will not be accepted anywhere but the US, especially in an islamic country where sharia serves as inheritence law. The point is not if it will be accepted in Morocco, for example, the point is, does your husband want his estate divided in the US as it would have to be done in Morocco, via islamic inheritence law?

2. Health insurance is acceptable in certain forms, you have to read up on this.

3. Theoretically, yes, but this would mean there are no cousins, uncles, even once or twice removed. It seems a stretch there would be no one, but maybe.

Edited January 10, 2007 by peezey

[frndly1 1]

Peezy, thanks so much for posting this topic. It has been very very informative and I think productive.

[Henia 11]

Henia, Thanks for the information. I greatly appreciate it.

Welcome Frndly1..as your PM request!

[Henia 11]

As far as flying the body back to the home country- I am totally confused on this, but Amed seems to think that the Algerian government would take care of the costs of this. I'm skeptical of this. Does anyone know how that works in ME/NA countries? I'm sure each country is different, but I've never heard of the home country flying back the body for burial free of charge.

I am kinda skeptical on this too MHandMB... but I will ask my husband.

[MHandMB 0]

Thanks, Henia.

[Henia 11]

Hello me again. My husband says he thinks yes... since he says several Algériens in France did this...but said he will ask around to be sure. I am still skeptical thou. No goverment is that nice or helpful (for nothing)

Edited January 11, 2007 by Henia