Presents and Gifts: Resolving Ownership Dispute Over a House Built on Parental Land

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Presents and Gifts: Resolving Ownership Dispute Over a House Built on Parental Land

English:

Question #1702:

A person built a house for his father on land that belonged to the latter. With the permission of the father, he built another storey on top of the house for himself. Both the father and the son died. There is neither evidence nor a will that could lead to proving its owner. How could this issue be resolved?

Answer #1702:

If the son had paid all expenditure arising from the building of the second storey, which was at his disposal and remained so throughout his lifetime, it should be his and part of his estate after his death according to shar‘. Accordingly, it is transferred to his inheritors.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Presents and Gifts