{"id":1989,"date":"2019-09-21T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:40:07","slug":"does-an-adopted-child-inherit-from-its-adoptive-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Does an adopted child inherit from its adoptive parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Does an adopted child inherit from its adoptive parents?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. My wife and I have tried to have children for many years but unfortunately, we could not have children. Now, Allah has blessed us with a wonderful child that we have adopted. We would like to know about the inheritance of this wonderful adopted child of ours. Would she inherit for us after our demise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> An adopted child does not inherit from its adoptive parents automatically. However, the adoptive parents are allowed to make a Wasiyyah (bequest) up to one-third of their wealth (after discharging funeral expenses and debts) to the adopted child if they wish to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does an adopted child inherit from its adoptive parents? Q. My wife and I have tried to have children for many years but unfortunately, we could<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}