LEGAL BRIEF
Vol. 11 No. 3 (2022): August: Law Science and Field

The Right to Bequeath a Wife in a Polygamous Marriage According to The Compilation of Islamic Law

Nadya Farras Indriati (Universitas Indonesia)
Febby Mutiara Nelson (Universitas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jul 2022

Abstract

Marriage in Islamic law adheres to an open monogamy system, where a man is allowed to have more than one wife.  Marriage has an influence on inheritance.  The legal consequences that arise due to death are the emergence of rights and obligations.  One of the inheritance problems occurs because of polygamous marriages.  So the formulation of the problem in this paper regarding the rights of a wife and child from polygamous marriages according to the Compilation of Islamic Law in the case of the decision of the Religious Court Number: XX /Pdt.G/2013/PA.Bks.  This research was conducted using a normative juridical research method with secondary data collection sourced from books related to the distribution of inheritance in polygamous marriages, as well as looking at the normative aspects in Law Number 1 of 1974, Compilation of Islamic Law, Decision of the Bekasi Religious Court  No.  XX /Pdt.G/2013/PA.Bks.  Data analysis in this study was carried out qualitatively with deductive conclusions.  The conclusion of this study is that it is possible for wives from polygamous marriages to jointly obtain property and inheritance from their husbands as regulated in Article 190 of the Compilation of Islamic Law and children from polygamous marriages are entitled to inherit property.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

legal

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

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The LEGAL BRIEF is a publication that is published every half-yearly and is intended as a forum for the exchange of ideas, studies and studies, as well as being a conduit of information, for the purpose of developing the development of legal science and those related to law in Indonesia. This ...