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Article 463 of Jaafari Personal Status Law

English translation

A sole maternal brother and a sole maternal sister shall receive the entire estate, inheriting one-sixth as a prescribed share and the remainder by return on account of kinship. Two or more maternal siblings, whether males, females, or males and females, shall receive the entire estate, inheriting one-third as a prescribed share and the remainder by return on account of kinship. It shall be divided equally among them, both as prescribed shares and by return. Index of the Law 1236 Home Page Jaafari Personal Status Law Law No. 124 of 2019 Promulgating the Jaafari Personal Status Law
Arabic original
للأخ المنفرد من الأم والأخت المنفردة من الأم المال كله يرث السدس بالفرض والباقي ردا بالقرابة، وللاثنين فصاعدا من الأخوة للأم ذكورا أو إناثا أو ذكورا وإناثا المال كله يرثون ثلثه بالفرض والباقي ردا بالقرابة، ويقسم بينهم فرضا وردا بالسوية.

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