Heir descendants Of the obligatory will In the Iraqi Personal Status Law

Section: Comment on judicial decision
Published
Aug 4, 2025
Pages
457-469

Abstract

The Iraqi legislator is limited to the Personal Status Law Direct that descendants must be included (The son's son, the son's daughter, the daughter's son, and the daughter's daughter) with an obligatory will within the limits of one-third. While many legislators in Arab countries include the direct descendants of the sons children, but not the daughters children. Thus, the obligatory will has no established legal ruling in the Holy Quran or the Sunnah of the Prophet, rather, it came based on the diligence of Muslim jurists because some of them consider the will to be an obligatory will in the sense of a will, while others insist that it is a forced inheritance.

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