Relatives and Inheritance !

[Aimee]

@rainyday

As long as your father has a will, which states that you and your sisters are going to inherit your mamu can do nothing. If the property is your dads islamically your mamu has no claim on it. I mean if it was chacoo (dont know the spelling) ad the property was from your dada abu then there might be an issue. The same thing happended to our house, one of my dads relative took over it we got an elder to sort everything out. So try not to go down the court route, mediate and talk it out.

Rainyday , thanks mate for your advise

now the thing is , we have also been told that having a will is not enough , since the islamic law of inheritance overrides any will formed , hence they will still be able to claim some property since we dont have a brother. I have also been told this several times , however i am still not sure of the validity of this point.

But the good thing is all of this property is my fathers , none of it is from inheritance , however its worth mentioning that my mother and father and mamu and mumani are all first cousins to each other ( interfamily marriages )

so i feel all the more insecure. Plus my dad wants to secure my mom as well , say if god forbid anything happens to him he wants my mom to feel secure and so has kept the main property in her name. ( clearly mamu will be able to claim from that property )

so i was very keen to find out if anyone else has encountered this situation or know how to keep oneself prepared to face this situation .. My dad and I both agree that we should try to avoid going to court for as long as possible and try to settle it all down peacefully … but it looks like it aint happening .. :hinna: