Singapore legislation
Clause 113
Clause 113
Administration of wife’s estate
(1)
When any person, being the wife of a Muslim, dies intestate leaving property of her own and leaving male children above the age of twenty-one years —
such male children shall be entitled to a grant of letters of administration to her estate and effects in preference to her husband;
the husband shall be entitled next after such male children;
after such male children and the husband, the daughters, father, mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces of the intestate shall be entitled in the order above set out; and
failing all the above, the next nearest of kin according to the Muslim law shall be entitled.
(2)
Preference shall be given to male over female relationship of the same degree in the above cases.
(3)
The children of the husband by other wives shall not be considered as next of kin to the deceased intestate wife, and shall not by reason of such relationship be entitled to a grant of letters of administration to her estate and effects.
(4)
Nothing herein contained shall affect the power given to the court by paragraph (d) of subsection (3) of section 18 of the Probate and Administration Ordinance (Cap. 17).