Please I do need urgent advice form lawyers in the house, my friend an Igbo lady just lost her dad, and her brothers are seriously fighting to takeover the father's estate and leaving she and the sister empty handed, please we do need wise counsel from the house.

Please only serious comments needed.

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In some Igbo cultures girls dont inherit but she can try going the legal way I believe if the property is not on ancestral land, she should be able to inherit something. What girls don't inherit in Igbo land is mostly ancestral homes and farmlands. It is kept for sons to keep the linage going .

I will not talk because if i should talk on this matter as an igbo man, i will get more than 50 mentions befor 2moro ends



consult d elders in d community

delishpot:
In some Igbo cultures girls dont inherit but she can try going the legal way I believe if the property is not on ancestral land, she should be able to inherit something. What girls don't inherit in Igbo land is mostly ancestral homes and farmlands. It is kept for sons to keep the linage going .

The properties incontention are not in the village or ancestral home, but the ones in the city.

Femles have rights to inheritance in Igbo land, ny custom that bars any female from inheriting is repugnant to eqyity, natural justice and good conscience. contact me for further legal advice.

gare:


The properties incontention are not in the village or ancestral home, but the ones in the city.

Then she should seek the counsel of a lawyer. I hope she finds help and gets part of her father's property. How can siblings turn greedy over money? Na wa ọ.

gare:


Please I do need urgent advice form lawyers in the house, my friend an Igbo lady just lost her dad, and her brothers are seriously fighting to takeover the father's estate and leaving she and the sister empty handed, please we do need wise counsel from the house.

Please only serious comments needed.

Moderator pls take it to front page it is urgent

Unfortunately in native Igbo customs women do not inherit from their father's house as it is believed they'll belong to their husband or future husband's family and inherit from him. However some Igbo families may not follow this custom especially if the father writes a will instructing how his estate should be divided or shared. Your friend needs to find out if her father wrote or prepared a will. If her father had a lawyer while alive, she should approach the lawyer to ask this. If he did write a will and apportioned some estate to her and her sister, then those are hers, legally binding. In the absence of a will, it may be a difficult family affair except if her brothers decide to give her some part of their father's estate (if she's close to them) or a senior uncle in the family intervenes in the matter. In the absence of a will,n your friend should approach a senior male family member on her father's side (umunna) who's fair enough about her interest in having a share of her father's estate. He may be able to influence her brothers to give her some part of it. It's not going to be easy but it is doable.

If the dad left the girls something in the will, then your friend has a case. She can go to the lawyers.

If however there's no will, or there is one but the dad left everything for the boys, then sorry for her. Lawyers won't be able to help.

gare:


Please I do need urgent advice form lawyers in the house, my friend an Igbo lady just lost her dad, and her brothers are seriously fighting to takeover the father's estate and leaving she and the sister empty handed, please we do need wise counsel from the house.

Please only serious comments needed.

Moderator pls take it to front page it is urgent

I saw an indication of your email, but did not get any mail. contact me neobi35@gmail.com
with or without a will, she is entitled to partake in her father's estate

You can only inherit if you're the first daughter.... The Ada.


But if you're not then you should go get married. Your inheritance is in your husband's house.