24 October, 2023
Q
My father married to my mother and got 2 sons and 2 daughters. Then he divorced my mother in 2010. In 2019, he married a divorcee woman who has 5 children from ex-husband but no child from my father. My father died in June 2022.No inheritance was done when the step mom died few days ago....she could not inherit from my father's property , money and pensionQuestion is: will the 5 kids of our step mom from her ex-husband get any share of our father's money, property and pension?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Answering your question, Sheikh Mustafa Umar, President of California Islamic University, states:
The five children are step-children of your father, so they do not inherit. The only way they would inherit anything is if your father left a wasiyyah (bequest) indicating that he is leaving something for them, which cannot exceed 1/3rd of the estate.
Almighty Allah knows best.