Shares in an inheritance
Say who died and who survived them. You get each heir's share of the estate as a fraction, a percentage and, if you give one, an amount, with the rule each share rests on.
This is arithmetic on the rules stated on this page. It is not a succession certificate and it is not legal advice. No lawyer has reviewed it.
Shia estates are not worked out here. This calculator works Hanafi (Sunni) shares only. If the person who died was Shia (Ithna Ashari), choose that below and the page will point you to a route instead.
What this calculator does and does not do
It works out
- Hanafi (Sunni) shares for spouses, children, parents, grandparents, full, consanguine and uterine siblings, and a son's children.
- Awl when fixed shares pass the whole, and radd when they fall short, with a spouse kept out of radd.
- The Umariyyatan and Himariyya cases, with a warning where the schools differ.
- Children of a predeceased son or daughter under section 4 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961, on by default.
- Rupee amounts from exact fractions, adding up to the estate to the rupee.
It refuses
- Shia (Ithna Ashari) estates. The calculator gives no figures for them.
- A husband and a wife together, more than four wives, or no heir at all.
- An estate value that is negative or not a whole number of rupees.
It leaves out
- More remote residuaries, such as a brother's son or a paternal uncle. The calculator warns you when one would change the answer.
- Distant kindred, including the children of a predeceased daughter when section 4 is off.
- The surplus when a spouse is the only heir. The calculator leaves it unshared and says so.
- Debts, funeral costs and bequests. Shares apply to the net estate.
Getting the property into the heirs' names
The shares are only the arithmetic. These routes cover the steps after it, each with its office, papers and the law it rests on.
- Inheritance through NADRA, PunjabFor you if a relative died leaving property, the heirs agree on who they are, and none is a minor.
- Inheritance through NADRA, IslamabadFor you if a relative died leaving property, the heirs agree on who they are, and none is a minor.
- Inheritance through the courtFor you if the heirs disagree, an heir is a minor, NADRA declined your application, or the property is outside Islamabad and Punjab.