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https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com Female Inheritance – An Imo State High Court sitting in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area presided by Justice Ijeoma Agugua has declared that a woman is entitled by law to inherit her father’s estate. The judgment was recently delivered in favour of Mrs. Regina Ihemadu (Nee Nwimo) who is the only surviving child of her late father, Mr. Imo Ebiringa of Umuelagwa Onitcha in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. The court also slammed the sum of N7 million against Mrs. Ihemadu’s uncles for sharing her inheritance to themselves soon after her father’s death and without her consent. In a suit No. HAM/13/2017 filed by Emperor N. Iwuala being the counsel to Mrs. Ihemadu against her uncles including Sunday Uwazie and all members of the Ebiringa family claimed in the said suit that her father and direct relations died and soon after their death, her uncles shared the deceased properties to themselves and sold same to members of the public without resorting to her being the only surviving daughter of the immediate family of late Mr. Imo Ebiringa. https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com Reacting to the judgment, Barr. Iwuala said that the judgment is very apt and flows from the constitutional right against discrimination on sex stating that the judgment is only a restatement of the earlier judgment of the Supreme Court in the celebrated Ukeje case. “With this, it is now clear that the age-long custom of disinheriting Female Inheritance or children (both married and unmarried) from sharing in their father’s property and estate is now not only null and void, but unconstitutional. Relating to this, back in 2016 , the Supreme Court voided the custom in the South-East that prevented female children from inheriting their fathers’ property. The apex court ruled that the Igbo practice was discriminatory and conflicts with the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution. The court held that the practice was a breach of Section 42 (1)(a) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com https://9jarealestate.com |
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