As I understand it, English law gives children and wives rights to a portion of their husband’s estate, even if the husband specifically removes his children or wife from his will.
Using Sharia law now says if a Muslim wants to remove his wife or child from his will, or remove anyone who is not Muslim from his will, he can now do so, whereas before he was required to give a portion to them whether he wanted to or not.
It seems a strange concept to me, to be forced to give money to my wife or kids if I deem them undeserving of my assets, but that’s apparently what UK law enshrined, prior to allowing Muslins to violate the law.
Of course, I could be wrong about this, I’m no lawyer!
Ed
Interesting. Like you, I’m of the opinion you can leave your money to whomever you want. That said, it’s pretty rotten of a man to leave all his money to his first-born son and leave everybody else with nothing. But that should be the individual’s perogative.