The Court of Appeal in Kano has ruled that the daughter of the late Major Mohammed Arogun Adeniyi, Nike, and her Christian mother must share the deceased’s inheritance with the children of his other ...

A Coptic Christian woman in Egypt is taking on the country's unequal Islamic inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Huda Nasrallah, a 40-year-old human rights lawyer, has ...

Egyptian Copt Amal Hanna says she is determined to fight the long-standing application of Islamic inheritance laws to Christians, as recent court victories embolden Coptic women. For decades, Egyptian ...

DUBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The misinterpretation of Islamic law and a lack of knowledge about inheritance rights are major hurdles in improving women's access to land in Muslim countries, ...

CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has stood ...

Last week, Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi proposed that equal inheritance for men and women become law. Currently, in the North African country, women receive only half of what men do in ...

From In re Estate of Ahmad, decided Mar. 23 by the Maryland intermediate appellate court, in an opinion by Judge Dan Friedman, joined by Justices Douglas Nazarian and Terrence Zic: The decedent, Mehdi ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Canberra court has awarded costs to a woman who disputed her mother's will on grounds it left her sons twice as much money as her ...

CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father's death last year, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has stood ...