Talk:Inheritance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it. | |
| Start | This article has been rated as start-Class on the assessment scale. | |
| ??? | This article has not yet received an importance assessment on the assessment scale. | |
 |
This article is supported by the Sociology WikiProject, which gives a central approach to sociology and related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article Inheritance, or visit the project page for more details on the projects. |
| Start | This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. |
 To-do list for Inheritance: |
edit · history · watch · refresh | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
|||
| Priority 2 | |||
Contents |
[edit] Systematic bias
As is usually the case here on the English 'pedia, more information is needed on this topic with respect to societies outside of the Euro-feudalistic and Anglo-American legal traditions. Ellsworth 00:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] How much?
I am wondering if anyone knows how much a person can inherit before they have to pay taxes?
[edit] Who inherits?
This article is missing basic facts. Who gets to inherit? Spouse? Children? How does making a will affect things? SGJ 23:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Debt
Can someone who knows more about this topic add info about the passing on of debt? Like, what happens if you have some deadbeat parent who you don't even speak to that racks up a huge credit debt and then croaks? Can you refuse to accept this "inheritance"? Obviously this varies from country to country and over history, but its something I would like to know more about. Seyon 00:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
- I can't speak for all cultures, but generally speaking, you shouldn't expect a negative inheritance. When a person dies, their assets are used to pay off any debts the individual had (whoever's administering the estate would make the decisions about which assets to sell to accomplish this). Anything left over then goes to the heir(s). If their aren't enough assets to cover the debts of the estate, the heirs simply get nothing. The debts become uncollectable to the collectors. --Q Canuck 01:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unreferenced template
As far as I can see, this article does not cite any sources for the information. If this situation does not improve, I intend to propose the article for deletion. --Gerry Ashton 02:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- There's no point in deleting such an obviously necessary article. If you care to take a look around you'll see much of Wikipedia is unreferenced. Just improve the article or be happy with the tags and assessment. Richard001 02:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Business inheritance?
In terms of business, does ineritance also play a role in the ownership of a company, such as Marathon Oil and Ewing Oil? Angie Y. 21:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The facts about Islamic law here is inaccurate .
Hi everyone,
The writer of this topic mentioned that "in principle , males inherit twice as females".
This is a logical fallacy let alone being academically inaccurate. Without going into academic complications about the Inheritance System in Islam, I have to tell you that only in 4 cases does a female ( this is an illogical overgenerilization as there are differences in Islam's Inheritance laws between sisters, wives, mothers, aunts, etc.) inherit half her male counterpart.That's not because of her being a female but because of such reasons as her relation to the dead person and some other reasons that needs another article.
On the other hand, there are more than 30(thirty) cases where a female inherits more than a male, sometimes twice as a male, and sometimes a male doesn't inherit because of the existence of a female.
This is just a fact about the issue to correct an inacademically-correct misconception. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elsaffani (talk • contribs) 19:27, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
