Over to you 'Righteousness'

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Absolutely!

Sue them .

Oga, property always go to the spouse first.

Igbochief001:
This is a no case madam ...unless a man specifically changes it .....his properties goes to the children

This few greedy family giving Igbos bad name ...arrest them sue the living hell out of them

Igbo Amaka

JidennaJason:
The siblings of the late civil engineer are just being tribalistic.... They don't want a "stranger" to have control of their brothers property. If the lady happens to come from the same village with the husband, this nonsense abduction and seizing of property wouldn't have happened.


Your wife or son should be your Next Of Kin.

Dont think it is a tribe issue. I hear same happens within marriage of same tribe also. It happens all over the country. It's either the full story is not being disclosed by madam or the man's family are just bad people.

wickedness.

One of the many Primitive cultures of the South East.

They will also shave her hair and force her to drink the water in which they bathed the dead husband.

And the brothers will start raping her as an inherited wife.

No other ethnic group is this backward in the whole world.

JidennaJason:
The siblings of the late civil engineer are just being tribalistic.... They don't want a "stranger" to have control of their brothers property. If the lady happens to come from the same village with the husband, this nonsense abduction and seizing of property wouldn't have happened.


Your wife or son should be your Next Of Kin.

Next of kin is that person they reach out to when you are in crises. Naming them next of kin doesn't give them a right to your property at death. make proper plans in case you have to depart unannounced. There is a judicial decision on the point above. Buy properties in your joint names. Set up educational and endowment polices and name them as beneficiaries, write a will and bequeath to them......

Do not just say i have made them 'next of kin'

MODIFIED

In further support of the position above, see below

Are you among those that think by giving a name to financial institutions (bank for example) as next-of-kin you have chosen that person to automatically inherit your wealth in the event of your demise? In other words, do you think by merely picking someone as your next-of-kin you have made that person a beneficiary to your wealth or entitlement(s) in the event of your death? Let us attempt a little legal analysis based on two factors: whether the deceased has a Will (a document written by a deceased when he was alive that prescribes how his property is to be shared when he dies) or whether he dies without a will

In law when a person dies leaving behind a will, he is said to have died testate. In such a circumstance, Issue of next-of-kin becomes useless. The reason is that the wealth of the deceased will simply be shared in line with the contents of the will.

The position is still the same even where the deceased dies without leaving a will. The position is that when a person dies without a will, the question as to who to inherit his wealth is determined by law, that is to say, customary law, or Islamic law or English Law or the Administration of Estates law (or equivalent legislation) not whom the deceased mentioned in his bank or place of work as next-of-kin.

How then do we know the law to be applied in sharing the property of the deceased? The law to be applicable in distributing the estate of the deceased shall be determined by the incidence of marriage of the deceased. If a deceased contracted a statutory marriage, succession to his wealth will be effected in accordance with either the English law or the Administration of Estates Law (or equivalent legislation), depending on the jurisdiction. See Obuzez V. Obuzez (2007) 10 NWLR (Pt. 1043) 430.

Under English Law and the administration of estate laws of various state, the surviving spouse together with the children of the deceased inherit his estate to the exclusion of every other person. The parents of the deceased takes next after the surviving spouse and children, followed by brothers and sisters of the full blood, brothers and sisters of half blood, grandparents, aunties and uncles of full blood relation to the parents of the deceased etc. See Kekereogun & Ors v. Oshodi (1971) LPELR-1686(SC) subject however to contrary provisions under the administration of estate laws of various states.

Where however the deceased contracted a customary marriage, then customary law will determine who will inherit the property of the deceased. That is to say in the circumstance, heirs are those who are under native law and custom entitled to inherit his estate. For Muslims, Islamic law determines who to inherit the deceased estate.

Therefore, under the Nigerian law of intestate succession, one cannot choose his heir under the pretext of next-of-kin; the law imposes heirs on him. For example it is the surviving spouse and children of an intestate who married under the Act that are his heirs. The intestate cannot therefore, by naming only one of them or any of his other blood relatives his next-of-kin, scheme them out of inheritance as the act of naming his next-of-kin does not amount to testamentary disposition.

In view of the foregoing, there is nothing special about next-of-kin as far as succession is concerned. Next-of-kin is merely the first contact point if anything happens to you. He is someone empowered to make decisions for you in times of emergency or where you are not readily available or unable to make the decisions yourself. He is someone empowered to provide necessary information about you where needed such as confirming your identity. He is also someone positioned to make medical decisions such as providing consent for a medical procedure. At best, what a next-of-kin can do after the demise of the deceased is perhaps to ensure that necessary steps are taken towards obtaining letter of administration from the probate. The typical Nigerian’s conception of the term, “next-of-kin” is therefore erroneous.

A next-of-kin can inherit only if he is named in a Will as a beneficiary or by his status he is entitled by law to inherit but not actually because he is named as the next-of-kin of the deceased in a bank or place of work.

https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/what-the-law-says-about-next-of-kin-in-nigeria/


This legal advise is given pro bono

JidennaJason:
The siblings of the late civil engineer are just being tribalistic.... They don't want a "stranger" to have control of their brothers property. If the lady happens to come from the same village with the husband, this nonsense abduction and seizing of property wouldn't have happened.


Your wife or son should be your Next Of Kin.

It's not about the tribe issue, it's a usual thing over here. Wicked kinsmen do that a lot over here.

It is a tribe issue. I am urhobo. It is unheard of in my place. Where I'm from women inherit everything including ancestral lands.

nedekid:

Dont think it is a tribe issue. I hear same happens within marriage of same tribe also. It happens all over the country. It's either the full story is not being disclosed by madam or the man's family are just bad people.

AnanseK:

One of the many Primitive cultures of the South East.

They will also shave her hair and force her to drink the water in which they bathed the dead husband.

And the brothers will start raping her as an inherited wife.

No other ethnic group is this backward in the whole world.

Stop being unfortunate

That's disgusting...women who drink it are just stupid. Gosh !!!!

AnanseK:

One of the many Primitive cultures of the South East.

They will also shave her hair and force her to drink the water in which they bathed the dead husband.

And the brothers will start raping her as an inherited wife.

No other ethnic group is this backward in the whole world.

sammirano3:
This is what you get when you marry an igbo man. So in the whole of yourbaland you did not see an omoluabi to marry but a wicked igno tribe. You got what you deserve. No sympathy from this side.

But you people claim to give landed properties to women.




Why then is she crying.

TM

ThatReporterz:


Source: https://punchng.com/my-husbands-siblings-abducted-him-seized-our-property-after-his-death-widow/

If you are getting married to other tribe, make sure it is court marriage.
It is only lazy woman that will say I do not work because my husband said I should not work.
If your husband insists you should not work, he should do life insurance/assurance or children endowment plan

JidennaJason:
The siblings of the late civil engineer are just being tribalistic.... They don't want a "stranger" to have control of their brothers property. If the lady happens to come from the same village with the husband, this nonsense abduction and seizing of property wouldn't have happened.


Your wife or son should be your Next Of Kin.

Wife should be only after some years especially if u as a married after u got made. Your kids should be ur next of Kin.

The last one that made the news happened in imo, this one in Ebonyi.
If you re non-igbo girl that want to marry igbo man just have it back of your mind that in the event your husband dies, his property belongs to his family. Dont let anyone sugarcoat it for you.
Even igbo ladies re not allowed to inherit their spouse or father property not to talk of non-igbo.

loveth360:
Yoruba and wickedness.


You abandoned your husband when he was sick,now you want to come a claim property.




But why is she crying i thought yorubas also give landed properties to their women,Or is it their normal lying way.

are you for real?

IkpuNnegiEwu44:



Red flag! I won't judge until I hear from the other side.

Your husband had crisis and was taken care of by his siblings(abduction according to u) what effort did u make? Are u sure u didn't abandon Ur husband?

He died in 2008, why us this story coming up now?

I won't judge this until i hear from the other side.

@ emboldened

Tribal bigot, it's as if you don't know how to read.

He died August 2018

Go back and read the story properly sir.

seriously serious

Midas01:
Even before reading this I knew the husband had to be igbo.

Sincerely, igbos need to do away with the culture of depriving their late brother/son's wife of her right to his property.

Stop setting your eyes on things that are not yours, work for your own.

I have never heard of such case in my tribe. It doesn't happen. Your brother's property is for his wife and children.

Advice to women : Pls, if a man deprives you of your right to work and earn your own money, DO NOT HEED TO IT. If you must heed to it then he should pay you monthly salary.

Never ever live your life at the mercy of someone else wether you're married or not.

This thing happens in other tribe. My friend step brother died and his own mother children bounced on his wife and took all their properties in Abuja, but she went to court and won, hands down. They're both from Ogoja Cross River State

dadavivo:
It's not about your tribe. My neighbour in Lagos, her husband died and he left 3 children, a boy and two girls.theyre both Igbos. Immediately the man died his siblings took ownership of their brothers twin duplex in Lagos.

As A traveler and a dweller, all my life, i haven't seen anywhere where this stuff is so prevalent if not the Eastern part of this country. I always believe they have their reasons so i will not talk ill of them. I will not talk ill of any tribe..

You travelled to be with your mother while your hubby is in a critical State, you must be a big clown, why not invite your mum over, meanwhile I don't support taking your properties but you should have stayed with your hubby!

IamCeazer:
I pity her..
Wicked In-laws

Wicked, greedy and lazy at same time. Why not work to acquire their own wealth that their own children will inherit?.

I was curious

Igbochief001:
This is a no case madam ...unless a man specifically changes it .....his properties goes to the children

This few greedy family giving Igbos bad name ...arrest them sue the living hell out of them

Let me not call you a hypocrite. Giving Igbo bad names indeed. Abegi.