Endowment: Endowing Property Registered in a Child’s Name
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Endowment: Endowing Property Registered in a Child’s Name
English:
Question #2006:
A person bought a share of arable land and registered it in the name of his son. Is it permissible for him to endow the land he bought for his son?
Answer #2006:
Registering the property in the name of someone is not a criterion for shar‘ī ownership of the person in whose name the property was registered. Should the father, having bought the land and registered it in the name of his son, have granted the land to his son whereby the latter actually took possession of it, he has no right to set it aside as endowment because he is no longer the owner of the land. Yet, if he had transferred the title deed to the name of his son and remained the de facto owner of the land, he would still be its shar‘ī owner. He should, therefore, have the right to assign it as an endowment.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments