{"id":463,"date":"2014-12-16T01:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2017-11-08T23:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T03:16:46","slug":"questions-regarding-partnership-in-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/questions-regarding-partnership-in-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions regarding partnership in property."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muhtaram Mufti Sahib<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May Allah Ta\u2019ala keep you with <em>aafiyat<\/em> and prolong your shadow over the Ummat. Aameen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two brothers are partners in a property which generates monthly rentals. The one partner passed away recently (May Allah Ta\u2019ala forgive him).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now that the one partner has passed away, does it mean that the living partner and the heirs of the deceased partner automatically become joint partners?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How should the property actually be distributed now? Can the one party purchase the other 50% share from the other party?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other living partner (who is blind) wishes to give his 50% share in the property to his 3 daughters. Can he do this? If yes, does he require consent from the heirs of the marhoom partner? Also, how should he actually do this transfer? If he merely has a document drawn up wherein he wilfully transfers ownership (gifts) his share to his daughters and has an independent person sign on his behalf or merely verbally mention this in the presence of perhaps 2 witnesses, will this be in order?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The blind person also has a personal house (he is the sole owner) which he also wishes to gift to his 3 daughters. How should he actually complete the <em>hiba<\/em> (gifting) process, considering that the title deeds are also in his name? If he does not transfer the house onto their name but merely gifts it to them in the presence of witnesses and has it duly signed perhaps as well, will this be sufficient?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jazakallahu Khairan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Was Salaam<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ziyad Hussain<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>As-sal\u0101mu \u2018alaykum wa-rahmatull\u0101hi wa-barak\u0101tuh.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1) Yes, the heirs of the deceased will own the deceased person\u2019s share of the property in proportion to what each heir will inherit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2) The property does not have to be distributed. The surviving brother and his nephew\/nieces (deceased brother children) can remain as partners to the property and have the rental income in proportion to their shares in the property. If the 50% shareholder or any shareholder wish to purchase the remaining shares, he may make an offer and if the shareholder agree, he may purchase their shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3) The surviving partner (blind person) is at liberty to gift his shares of the property to his three daughters. He does not require the consent of the other partners (heirs of the deceased) to do so. In gifting, the father should offer his share to each daughter and each daughter should accept the gift. This should be documented and kept on record. It is advisable to have the gifting witnessed and also recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4) The father may gift his personal house to his three daughters as explained in point 3 above. While it is advisable to transfer the property onto his three daughter names in his lifetime, it is not necessary to do so especially it being a costly affair. Recording the transfer and placing it in ones will, will suffice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And Allah Ta\u2019\u0101la Knows Best<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mufti Arshad Ali<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\" href=\"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\">https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh Muhtaram Mufti Sahib \u00a0 May Allah Ta\u2019ala keep you with aafiyat and prolong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-and-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}