Ṣulḥ: Parents’ Right to Inheritance After Property Transfer to Wife Through Ṣulḥ Deed

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Ṣulḥ: Parents’ Right to Inheritance After Property Transfer to Wife Through Ṣulḥ Deed

English:

Question #1777:

In a ṣulḥ deed, a man agreed with his wife to relinquish the ownership of all he owned in her favour. He also made her the guardian of their children. After his death, have the husband’s parents any right in demanding a share of his estate?

Answer #1777:

If it is proved that the deceased has, during his lifetime, given his wife or any other party all his possessions in a ṣulḥ deed, so much so that he did not leave anything for himself till the moment of his death, there is no case for the parents, or the rest of heirs, i.e. they are not entitled to any inheritance. Thus, they have no right to demand from the wife anything of the property which became hers during her husband’s lifetime.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Ṣulḥ