syntekelite:
Let me ask this simple question..
If a popular billionaire or a king's daughter got married and passed..so the properties that was part of her fathers estate which was inherited by her before marriage automatically belongs to the husband

Make Mr Eazi just dey wait for Otedola to die like this. He would swing into action and sell the whole Otedola estate. Awon werey!

princeeze1:

What you quoted is not the Nigerian law, What you pasted is inheritance under customary law which varies from locality to locality. In such cases their marriage was contracted only under the native law and customs. Where the marriage is under the act ( white wedding or registry marriage), succession is first spousal, male or female and it is not subject to any customary laws, as the customary laws will take a back seat. Read carefully;



https://www.mondaq.com/nigeria/wills-intestacy-estate-planning/664402/how-to-take-over-the-property-of-someone-who-has-died

You guys are just being stubborn and refuse to listen to reason. I have pointed out with numerous examples that in most jurisdictions of the world inherited assets is not part of marital assets and is handled separately from common law. I have provided examples from US, I have shown you examples from UK, from where we get most of our common law from. You guys still hold stubbornly to the wrong notion that inherited asset automatically becomes the other spouse's property after death of one of the spouse.

Once again below is the British law on inherited property in marriage.

Abi, you want to say Nigeria is the only exception to that law in the world?

What are you talking about? They will shake his hand if he wants to develop any of the properties. The issue is don’t sell inherited ancestral property.

Richy4:
U have succeeded in scaring your dad away from the land... What about you buddy? Have you not also handed them (family members) the right to decide on what happens to your mum's properties? Just asking .. if you wanna develop it tomorrow will they have a say?

pocohantas:


Make Mr Eazi just dey wait for Otedola to die like this. He would swing into action and sell the whole Otedola estate. Awon werey!

Womb raiders protocol initiated
You go born heir or we die here

syntekelite:
Let me ask this simple question..
If a popular billionaire or a king's daughter got married and passed..so the properties that was part of her fathers estate which was inherited by her before marriage automatically belongs to the husband

Abeg help me ask dem Peter Nwachukwus dem, what happens if the dead wife's husband marries another wife and then dies. From their suggestion, the property in question reverts to the new wife, abi? What happens if that wife then marries another husband? The new man inherits the property. Is that how an ancestral property or assets will be going around not blood related people?
Inheritance usually has connection to blood relatives.

wirinet:






Which law are you talking about? Inherited properties and properties acquired before marriage are not considered marital property to be shared during divorce or automatically inherited by the other spouse in case of death.

Quite informative.

immortalcrown:
I have been vindicated once again. The kindred only cautioned your father not to sell the property because the kindred's tradition does not permit the selling of such property. But the kindred did not say you have more right than your father over the property.

Your argument was the property is your right. I told you your father owns the property. I said he owns the property despite the fact that his attempt to sell the property is bad. Fools disagreed with me.

Our major argument was about who between you and your father has more right over the property. You claimed you have more rights over the property. Now, your kindred does not support that claim of yours. Your kindred only condemned the idea of selling the property. And I myself also condemned the idea of selling the property.

You be the kind mumu when no sabi how to read and comprehend. The land in question only belong to people related to the tribe by blood. That is OP through his mum. The dad has no business or say in the matter. People like you come to nairaland to confuse others.

pocohantas:


Make Mr Eazi just dey wait for Otedola to die like this. He would swing into action and sell the whole Otedola estate. Awon werey!

Lol.. this got me cracking....i stil dey laugh self .me wey e hard for person to make me smile..

syntekelite:


Lol.. this got me cracking....i stil dey laugh self .me wey e hard for person to make me smile..

It is funny naw. Who be the werey wey wan buy ancestral land sef? People that have sense do not do such. Where I come from, ancestral lands are for the kids to develop and/or farm. They are not to be sold.

After selling them off to outsiders, what happens when the kids grow and want to build? They would go to the neighbouring village to buy land ba? Some people no just well.

Richy4:
U have succeeded in scaring your dad away from the land... What about you buddy? Have you not also handed them (family members) the right to decide on what happens to your mum's properties? Just asking .. if you wanna develop it tomorrow will they have a say?

Don't you mind him, and he even came here to say the issue was 'resolved'. I wonder what kind of desperation will make you report your father to your mother's people. SMH.

armyofone:


I thought it should be before Easter. 40 days and 40 nights that the Lord asked devil to flee

Flee from me! after Easter done pass on the way to Galilee.

Iya rere
How are you doing Iya mi.

If you don't cast them out, how would they flee?

I'm fine, thank you. Happy Easter Iya mi.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

Don't you mind him, and he even came here to say the issue was 'resolved'. I wonder what kind of desperation will make you report your father to your mother's people. SMH.

So what should he have done? Take his father to court?

VULCAN:
I don't know why you are bothering yourself with people whose root you can't identify.

Some of the males who attacked you imagine themselves in your dad's shoes.

They believe it is their right to collect their wives inheritance and don't mind killing their son to take over the property

Such are males and not men. They are already preparing to depend on their kids.
I supported you on the first thread because I know how irresponsible some men can be with money and inheritance.

Most of them are Igbo. Igbo culture that leaves no land or properties for women. Little wonders why the women die in abusive marriage. When you don't have father's house to run to, you are forced to remain in husband house praying that the man doesn't die on time because of wicked brothers. Ndi uchu, they want Biafra while they treat their daughters like trash.

immortalcrown:
The poster said his mother alone owned and enjoyed the property. He also said the mother's relatives tried but failed to collect the property because the mother's father, before his own death, gave the property to the mother. So, what is your logic here?

Are you not getting it ? Why are you doing as if you live in the family.... if the mother's family have no say in the property, why did they scold the father never to sell any of the properties and he never bothered to take them to court....
This thing na just simple logic na, no need to think deep

Biglittlelois:



And you see this as okay? You even sound proud of an injustice and unfairness that should have been abolished ages ago, no wonder your men will continue to buy and see you igbo women as mere property.

Exactly, and she even claimed it's planned.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

Don't you mind him, and he even came here to say the issue was 'resolved'. I wonder what kind of desperation will make you report your father to your mother's people. SMH.

Did you read and assimilate the whole write up ?
He tagged his father as a wasteful spender....
Have you ever been close to someone with that character ?
Those kind of people, give them 2 million today, a week after, they will be begging you for 2k...
He should open his eyes wide and allow his father sell his future ?
Bro, have been close to people like that I can tell you, it will feel like taking there very own property away from them till they come back to there senses....

wirinet:


You guys are just being stubborn and refuse to listen to reason. I have pointed out with numerous examples that in most jurisdictions of the world inherited assets is not part of marital assets and is handled separately from common law. I have provided examples from US, I have shown you examples from UK, from where we get most of our common law from. You guys still hold stubbornly to the wrong notion that inherited asset automatically becomes the other spouse's property after death of one of the spouse.

Once again below is the British law on inherited property in marriage.

Abi, you want to say Nigeria is the only exception to that law in the world?

No stress yourself bro. Those you are quoting are so resigned to there lot, they will refuse to belive whatever they are not used to believing

alphabbey1:
Are you not getting it ? Why are you doing as if you live in the family.... if the mother's family have no say in the property, why did they scold the father never to sell any of the properties and he never bothered to take them to court....
This thing na just simple logic na, no need to think deep

Go and read the post again. The father was scolded by his own kindred. And the scold is based on the traditions of the father's kindred.

immortalcrown:
Go and read the post again. The father was scolded by his own kindred. And the scold is based on the traditions of the father's kindred.

Scroll up, a guy just proved by law the father cannot claim the property.

immortalcrown:
You are the one who did not read at all. Your argument in your first post is the property belongs to you and not to your father. I said here that the kindred did not say the property belongs to you.

Our major argument was about who between you and your father has more right over the property. You claimed you have more rights over the property. Now, your kindred does not support that claim of yours. Your kindred only condemned the idea of selling the property. And I myself also condemned the idea of selling the property.

But why? Why are you being unyielding?

His family have cleared the air and confirmed that the father has no right to the properties. You just don't want to be wrong based your earlier comments in the first thread. Relax.

ibechris:



Brother,u see this forum is inundated with people whose background is rooted in extreme poverty. Most times when matters like this come up,they just wished why not me hence their reasons for antagonising anyone who comes for advice bothering on money,properties and women.

In fact,anytime u come up here for opinions such as the earlier one,pls listen to few responsible ones and leave those cursed ones to their destiny.

They have nothing soothing or advice to give but haul all kinds of insults at you just to proof to you how they also insult their parents at home.

Thank God u got a solution to this and i am sure mum would be happy up there.

Cheers!

Filled with hungry men that will definitely want to inherit and prey on their wife's properties. They can't imagine not having that access. That's why they cannot receive this update from the op without malfunctioning .

I gave you a similar advice to meet people that you feel your dad can listen to. Am sure some NL also gave such advice. Talking about the insult you got from people on this platform without talking about those that gave you good advice is not right. My happiness for you is that you did the right thing without violence in resolving the issue. Again, you don't expect everyone to support or tell you what you like to hear about your issue with your dad, you just have to pick the right comments and leave the rest.

Aonkuuse:
Well that is good, in our family too, we don't sell inherited properties, if you try it, you will go 6ft down.

Prepare for a serious underground battle from your father, especially anything you want that needs his attention but it all for the best.

A guy sold his mom's land around my place..
He died mysteriously about two months after he sold the land.
He has since joined his late father and mother six feet under the same land.

immortalcrown:
I have been vindicated once again. The kindred only cautioned your father not to sell the property because the kindred's tradition does not permit the selling of such property. But the kindred did not say you have more right than your father over the property.

Your argument was the property is your right. I told you your father owns the property. I said he owns the property despite the fact that his attempt to sell the property is bad. Fools disagreed with me.

Our major argument was about who between you and your father has more right over the property. You claimed you have more rights over the property. Now, your kindred does not support that claim of yours. Your kindred only condemned the idea of selling the property. And I myself also condemned the idea of selling the property.

I don't know the origin of this story but in igbo land, if he is the last son or the only son. Everything that belongs to the mother is automatically inherited by him. His father has absolutely no right over the properties.

Mariangeles:


The reason why I'm asking is 'cause in Igbo culture, things are done differently.

A married woman cannot keep an ancestral property from her father's family.

Please which part of igbo land are you from? What you posted us very strange.

Ayoleeboy007:
What's the purpose of having or inheriting property without using or selling it

Lease/rent it

thebosstrevor1:


It has nothing to do with willed or legally married.

This was a property gotten before the marriage. The father does not have any right to it.

Even if dad was caretaker when Op was young, from 18 yrs or 21 years, Op is fully ready to be in charge of what was passed down to him.

The guys arguing this are those hoping to inherit from their wife's family since they feel women too inherit from men so they are damn so adamant. They fail to put themselves in the shoes of leaving property for their daughter which is supposed to be for their grandkids which husband will want to drag with those grandkids.

Women who sell inherited properties at the demise of their husband do so mainly to take care of those kids.

wirinet:


Abeg help me ask dem Peter Nwachukwus dem, what happens if the dead wife's husband marries another wife and then dies. From their suggestion, the property in question reverts to the new wife, abi? What happens if that wife then marries another husband? The new man inherits the property. Is that how an ancestral property or assets will be going around not blood related people?
Inheritance usually has connection to blood relatives.

Isn't that a good way for wealth to be redistributed?

syntekelite:
Let me ask this simple question..
If a popular billionaire or a king's daughter got married and passed..so the properties that was part of her fathers estate which was inherited by her before marriage automatically belongs to the husband

No culture is 100% perfect but in Igboland, if innoson gifts his plastic factory to his daughter and his daughter marries an ogbomosho man .That factory in enugu automatically belongs to segun if she dies without a will even if she bore children for segun and segun can come from ogbomosho ,sell the factory 2b and pocket the money without any disturbances.

Prettychild:

In law, your father has no right to sell your mother’s property, the law looks at it as him holding it in trust for her

So prettychild if the op is a brilliant kid taking 1st position from primary 1 to having A's in school cert and he wants to study medicine in the university and the father cannot afford shool fees, so the father cannot sell the wife's property to train such a brainy boy? So the property should be left and the boy should go and join agboros on the roads or omoniles?

Morphinne:


Boss, your stance on this is actually faulty. Though I’m not in support of the OP fighting his father over inheritance but children have more right over inheritance than spouses. Take for instance, in Yoruba culture, a man’s properties can only be transferred to his wife after his death on and only on the condition that the wife birthed him children (a son in most cases) who would serve as the right heir to the deceased as well as the bloodline. Why now trying to relegate the main reason (The OP in this case) why you were allowed access to the said properties in the first place?
Secondly, selling off landed inheritance properties is not only bad but shameful. My opinion

But some Yoruba are selling off inherited landed properties to Igbo and others in lagos but the sellers are not condemned instead the buyers are called out to be domineering and greedy.

thebosstrevor1:


This is a family property on the mother side. An ancestral land, land own before they got married.

The law court treats family properties owned by spouses before the marriage as separate properties. So the husband has no right to any property a woman own before marriage

In essence the woman's family owns the land. It isn't her own in the first instance because as it is, the woman cannot even sell what supposedly belongs to her eg to train her brilliant boy to study medicine in the University if she and her husband don't have money.