Inheritance laws and the right to matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by death

dc.contributor.authorMwakilema, Irene Tadeo
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21T13:11:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-08T11:38:37Z
dc.date.available2019-11-21T13:11:42Z
dc.date.available2020-01-08T11:38:37Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionAvailable in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Libraryen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study attempts to analyze inheritance laws and the right to matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by death. It was conducted in Dar es Salaam region whereby the information from three institutions namely; The Legal and Human Rights Centre: The Women Legal Aid Centre: and a registered Non Governmental Organization named Widows and Vulnerable Children in Tanzania has been collected by using both primary and secondary data. The collected data were analyzed; the results of the analysis show that the Law of Marriage Act, 1971, Cap 29, RE 2002 ( herein after referred to as the LMA) which govern matters relating to marriage in Tanzania and other inheritance laws, fails to protect women rights to property particularly matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by death. Upon death of a husband in practice, the administrators of the deceased estate do not consider a question, whether the property to be inherited by deceased heirs was matrimonial property obtained by joint efforts with the remaining widow; hence is to be distributed first as per section 114 of the LMA before being distributed to the deceased heirs. The said failure causes a lot of problems to widowed women who bare the responsibility of raising their families. Thus the study recommends the enactments of specific provisions in the LMA and other inheritance laws which would provide for division of matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by death as currently there is no provision to such effect.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMwakilema, I T (2009) Inheritance laws and the right to matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by deathen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6339
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Dar es Salaamen_US
dc.subjectMatrimonial propertyen_US
dc.subjectDissolutionen_US
dc.subjectMarriage by deathen_US
dc.titleInheritance laws and the right to matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage by deathen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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