2 articles tagged βFaraidβ
Turkish civil law gives sons and daughters equal shares and armor-plates them with reserved shares. Faraid divides differently. The two systems collide in every Muslim estate, and there is exactly one mechanism that reconciles them. Here it is.
One article of the Turkish Civil Code lets a unanimous family divide an estate by Islamic shares after civil law has spoken, and Diyanet explicitly endorses using it. How the miras taksim sozlesmesi works, where it breaks, and how families prepare.