Sentence examples for inheritance cases from inspiring English sources

That has raised the number of international inheritance cases to 360,000 a year.

Having triumphed in January's elections, the conservative Shia parties have pushed for the new constitution to let religious courts handle marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance cases.

Brunei's legal system currently features civil courts along with sharia-compliant chambers handling non-criminal issues such as marital and inheritance cases.

In other Islamic countries that use sharia law as a basis for the legal code, blood money compensation is allowed only in compensation and inheritance cases, not for criminal sentences.

Treaties preventing double taxation rarely cover inheritance cases (the EU, for example, says its members have completed only about 30 of the 350 or so possible agreements), so international successions risk being taxed more than once, though in December the European Commission issued non-binding recommendations against that.

Although property and inheritance laws based on the French code do not discriminate against women, local leaders adjudicate most inheritance cases in favour of men, according to traditional practice.

In Cambodia, for example, the forensic test necessary to lay a rape charge costs two weeks' wages, while in Kenya a land claim in an inheritance case can cost $800 and extend across 17 different administrative stages.

In other cases, such a couple never left the state where they were legally married but sought to use the courts in a state where their marriage was theoretically invalid in an injury, property or inheritance case where something turned on their marital status.

WALL STREET JOURNAL In Court, JPMorgan Tries the Playboy Precedent | JPMorgan Chase is looking to a ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith inheritance case as the basis of its argument to move Lehman Brothers' $8.6 billion suit against the bank to a federal court, Reuters reports.

One of her more unusual cases occurred a decade ago when she was called in to interpret in an inheritance case.

With the inheritance case settled, he left the public eye and returned to the life of a rural landowner; he placed Craigievar Castle in the hands of the National Trust for Scotland and continued to live in his house at Brux.