{"id":1599,"date":"2011-08-25T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:53:52","slug":"is-inheritance-in-a-divorce-settlement-permissible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-inheritance-in-a-divorce-settlement-permissible\/","title":{"rendered":"Is inheritance in a divorce settlement permissible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIs inheritance in a divorce settlement permissible?\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<h1>\n\t<strong><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<p>\n\tOne of the conditions of inheritance is that the person from whom you are inheriting has died.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIbn-Abedeen Shami (RA) in <em>Raddul-Muhtar<\/em> has written, &ldquo;(inheritance) has three conditions. One of them is that the benefactor has passed away. (p.491 v.10)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTherefore, in the above scenario, the property one will receive &ldquo;as inheritance&rdquo; via a divorce settlement, is not be permissible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo long as the husband is still alive, his property cannot be distributed amongst his legal heirs i.e. wife, father, mother etc&hellip;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever if the couple have &ldquo;joint ownership&rdquo; of assets they own (i.e. the house they reside in), then the wife will continue to retain her ownership of half of the &ldquo;joint&rdquo; assets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf the husband willingly wants to give a certain percentage of his property to his wife at the time of divorce, then this will be regarded as a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gift<\/span> (and not inheritance), and therefore it will be permissible for one to accept such a gift.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAllah Knows Best.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMohammed Tosir Miah\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDarul Ifta Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is inheritance in a divorce settlement permissible? In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful Answer One of the conditions of inheritance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}