Three Groups Who Inherit on Familial Ties
Issue No.2352- There are three groups of persons who inherit from a deceased on the basis of kinship: 1) The first group consists of the deceased’s parents and children, and in the absence of children, the grand children, however down in the family line they may go, and among them whoever is nearer to the deceased inherits his property. And so long as even a single person from this group is present, people belonging to the second group do not inherit.2) The second group consists of the grandfather and the father of the grandfather (as far as the line continues), the grandmother and the mother of the grandmother (as far as the line continues), the sisters and brothers, and in the absence of sisters and brothers their children, whoever from among them is nearer to the deceased, will inherit from him. And so long as even one person from this group is present, people belonging to the third group do not inherit.3) The third group consists of paternal uncles and aunts and maternal uncles and aunts, however distant they are and their descendants, however down the family line they go. Of course, whoever from among them is nearer to the deceased, will inherit from him. And so long as even one person from the uncles and aunts of the deceased is alive, their children do not inherit, and so long as their children are alive, the children of their children will not inherit. There is only one exception to this and that is in case the deceased person has a half-blood paternal uncle and a full-blood male paternal cousin; the former does not inherit anything from his property, rather his property will be inherited by the cousin.
