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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Marvyx(m): 7:59pm On Dec 02, 2014
Depends on the tribe you're from...
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Dannidom(m): 8:00pm On Dec 02, 2014
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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Amadaz(m): 8:00pm On Dec 02, 2014
Popsi property never dey enough for we guys let alone the females... Abeg no gree mk this matter exceed this medium oh!
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Nobody: 8:01pm On Dec 02, 2014
Who told you that? In this 21st century its only parents that still live in stone age that cn do that. It was then when parents believed that the woman will have inheritance in her husband's house, but now both genders are treated almost equally or equally. cool
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Nobody: 8:01pm On Dec 02, 2014
ducii:
Why are Female children not Entitled to inheritance from their Parents in many cultures in Nigeria and Africa? But in the Western countries female children are Entitled to Inherit their Parents Estate.

you mean ibo people or what? because in my tribe female get a share of the property. Any ways in this modern days they have what is called a will.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by holatin(m): 8:01pm On Dec 02, 2014
cus the property may becomes another man own one day.
Girls husband
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by makzeze: 8:01pm On Dec 02, 2014
In Islam, female children are entitled to 1/3 of wealth.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by atlwireles: 8:02pm On Dec 02, 2014
My sisters will get equal share, when ever we share anything belonging to our parents. That male gets all is not applicable to my brothers and I.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by grellworld: 8:07pm On Dec 02, 2014
ducii:
Why are Female children not Entitled to inheritance from their Parents in many cultures in Nigeria and Africa? But in the Western countries female children are Entitled to Inherit their Parents Estate.

because they are expected to get married and inherit landed properties with the husband from his family. if he inherits his fathers properties and wealth and then gets married, she wld carry the inheritance to her husbands place. her nativity changes as soon as she gets married.

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by monemsis(m): 8:08pm On Dec 02, 2014
Guess cos of black man




black mentality
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by hrakabz(f): 8:12pm On Dec 02, 2014
olapluto:
Islam permits female children to inherit from parents and husband.
That's Islam the Religion of Justice, it has given every individual its ryt! Alhamdulillah ala ni'imatul islaam!!!

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by alsudaes1(m): 8:13pm On Dec 02, 2014
olapluto:
Islam permits female children to inherit from parents and husband.

Absolutely Right! It is well spelt out in the Holy Qur'an, they cannot be denied their right.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Zaikon(m): 8:13pm On Dec 02, 2014
female children ar also entitled to inheritance 4rm dia parent...but d Per centages differs to dat of male children coz female children have another option (husband).
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by rhazur(m): 8:14pm On Dec 02, 2014
Yoruba wud say "eni to lerù lo léru"........why one man from nowhere go kon chop anoda man sweat

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by alsudaes1(m): 8:16pm On Dec 02, 2014
hrakabz:
That's Islam the Religion of Justice, it has given every individual its ryt! Alhamdulillah ala ni'imatul islaam!!!

JazaakiLlaahu khairan.
truely, Al-hamduliLlaah 'ala ni'matil Islaam
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Misogynist2014(m): 8:18pm On Dec 02, 2014
Girls shouldn't smell inheritance because most times the inheritance is their fathers (male) and should go to the MALE not feMALE. I support it, it is good.

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Ice4jez(m): 8:20pm On Dec 02, 2014
Make i come see male relation way go come collect. The million in cash and asset i will to my babe girl when i go. The idiott go tell me where he dey when i was working for my hard earned money,
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Ice4jez(m): 8:24pm On Dec 02, 2014
Misogynist2014:
Girls shouldn't smell inheritance because most times the inheritance is their fathers (male) and should go to the MALE not feMALE. I support it, it is good.
u will never have a male child cos u re a waste to parenthood

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by AndreRose(f): 8:28pm On Dec 02, 2014
Well,female children of customary law marriage are usually denied a share in der late fathers property. But dis only happens wen he dies intestate(witout writing will) but wia he dies testate(wrote will)and gvs his daughter a share den she wil benefit. Dou dey are entitled to der late fathers economic trees planted in the family land,if reserved for family use. ONYANKPA V BALA AKOGWU. Wia d father dies intestate,d brothers cn favour d sister by catering for her needs. but dis is not so in yoruba land. But d court in MOJEKWU V EJIKEME has tried to change dis discrimination against d females as it contravenes a section in d contituiton.(Sorry cnt rmba d exact section and am not wia I cn check it)
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by evantical: 8:29pm On Dec 02, 2014
A recent court ruling has changed that.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by okine4real: 8:30pm On Dec 02, 2014
it depends, as for me, i dont see any reason sharing the landed properties i have in my village among my Sons and Daughters. All my lands and house located in my village would be shared among my Sons only, because once my daughers are married they have know business in the village...


Now for my properties in CITY eg Asaba, Lagos PH, definitly my Daughter are entitle to those properties because those areas are civilized, those are the places where people do business.... So my Daughters would have there shares of my properties in the city and do what ever business they want with it.


Just imagine i give my Daughter 2 acres of land in my village, i mean were this land is located, its in a thick forest. tell me, what time would she have to go to her fathers village? not to mention she going to inspect if the two acres is still there. But when such lands is given to the male children, since that place is there root, they would always go to the village for one ceremony or for xmas. But you all know everybody stays in the city, so all my Daughters must have there portion of any of my properties in the city.

This is the little i know of for now.....

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by IyfeNamikaze(m): 8:32pm On Dec 02, 2014
The girl child won't inherit her father's properties but she will most definitely inherit most or all of her mother's properties which are sometimes one of her father's possessions which he gave to her mother. When she gets married to a man, her husband would give her some of his possession (mostly land and livestock ) and build a hot for her. The girl child's inherits her husband's possession and not her father's because she will drop her father's name for her husband's. this I believe was a way to encourage young men to strive to be successful before getting married and not rely on the wealth of your father in-law..

Now in some igbo tradition (mostly the abiriba ) the son doesn't even inherit anything from his father, his only inheritance is his mother's properties. and this I learned was because a certain boy who was pursued by some people (probably to kill) instead of him running into his father's hot, he ran into his mother's hot nd was saved, so people were like... since he choose his mother's hot instead of his father's, his inheritance will only come from his mother's possession. *someone from abiriba should give us more details concerning this story *
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Ilekeh(f): 8:34pm On Dec 02, 2014
Only in some part of Nigeria.
Where I come from, females inherit.
I'm from Yorubaland btw

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Lilimax(f): 8:36pm On Dec 02, 2014
This scnerio is prevalent in the South East embarassed But I've seen a lot of ladies both married and unmarried in the South West that inherited their parents properties. I think it's a culture thing that should be looked into embarassed
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Ilekeh(f): 8:38pm On Dec 02, 2014
Yoruba females have always had equal rights.

We've had female Yoruba rulers before European invasions.......Yoruba queens without king.

Being a female in Yorubaland is not a hardship........having overprotective male family members is the problem tongue

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by justitiaomnibus(m): 8:41pm On Dec 02, 2014
Because their parents sell them off by collecting bride price.. And their duty is to give birth to make children who will inherit their husbands property and give birth to female children who will get married and give birth to male children's that will inherit their husbands property.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by adisa204(m): 8:46pm On Dec 02, 2014
okay my candid opinion.Am a man and I dint intend on feeding of my father's inheritance,in short I don't care what happens to it,I want to struggle make my own cash(legally)work my ass off and look back and I can proudly say that "I AM A MAN".........(MY MOTHER THOUGHT ME THAT WAY).
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by tbestofgod(f): 9:09pm On Dec 02, 2014
ducii:
Why are Female children not Entitled to inheritance from their Parents in many cultures in Nigeria and Africa? But in the Western countries female children are Entitled to Inherit their Parents Estate.
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Says who? Not in this gent age. My children either male or female are absolutely entitled to my inheritance.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by UnimkeAk(m): 9:13pm On Dec 02, 2014
I bet You have not met the Efiks.
Females be inheriting properties more than the male children.
The first Child is the head whether male and female.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Heart2heart(m): 9:16pm On Dec 02, 2014
You shud know that minors are littered everywhere on this land. Don't u hear them complain about how long a post is? Don't u hear them say "u expect me to read this"? Kids forum. Reading culture is dead.
Gboliwe:


Ofcourse he didn't! Lately, I've been reading a lot of threads on nairaland and I marvel at the level of understanding of some users. I mean, is there a contest I don't know of that gives awards to the highest number of posts from a user? If not, why do many users just jump into a thread and start making a fool of themselves? I do NOT understand.

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Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by delishpot: 9:25pm On Dec 02, 2014
Cos they believe that women will marry and leave. Tgey do not want them to take family property to another man who may sell it or claim it as its believed that a man owns the woman and all she owns. So they believe by denying women they are saving family wealth and heritage from being transfered to another family(husbands). Even widows are denied properties by deceased husbands family esp if they choose to remary outside the family.
Re: Why Are Female Children Not Entitled To Inheritance From Their Parents? by Kasieze(m): 9:45pm On Dec 02, 2014
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