Family Law II

3 Credit Hours

Course Outline:

This class will cover:

  1. The background and basic of inheritance, the principles of and evidences for inheritance, the causes of inheritance, the beneficiaries of an estate, and the impediments to inheritance.
  2. Heirs with fixed shares: groups A & B, the number of inheritors and their shares.
  3. Asabah, zawu 'l-arham and hajb.
  4. The numerics of inheritance law: awd, raddiyyah, the relationships among the numbers andal-tashih.
  5. Miscellaneous: creditors, takharus, muqasamah, munasakhah, hermaphrodites, fetuses, lost persons, apostates, captives, and the ones who died together.