{"id":2194,"date":"2019-10-18T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:20:45","slug":"inheritance-of-spouses-sharing-ownership-of-half-of-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance of spouses sharing ownership of half of a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Inheritance of spouses sharing ownership of half of a house<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. My mother and father jointly owned a house. Half the house belonged to my mother and half the house belonged to my father. After my mother passed away, my father remarried and gave my mother\u2019s half of the house to his second wife. My father says that my mother\u2019s share of the house belongs to him because they were married to each other and he has the right to do what he wishes with it. Is this correct?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> According to Shariah, spouses do not legally share in each other\u2019s possessions by virtue of marriage. The possessions of each spouse belongs to each one of them respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, if your mother owned a share of 50 % of the house, it was incorrect for your father to take your mother&#8217;s 50 % share of house and give it to his second wife after your mother\u2019s demise. Your mother&#8217;s 50 % of the house forms part of her estate and should be distributed amongst her rightful heirs in accordance to the Islamic Laws of Inheritance and Succession.<\/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>Inheritance of spouses sharing ownership of half of a house Q. My mother and father jointly owned a house. Half the house belonged to my mother<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-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","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=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}