Moroccan Inheritance Law: Your Complete Rights to Succession

Division follows the Moudawana (Family Code, Law 70.03) based on Islamic law. Fixed shares: surviving spouse 1/4 or 1/8; daughter 1/2 or 2/3 (two or more daughters); mother 1/6 or 1/3. Notaries prepare the certificate of inheritance.

Heirs include: surviving spouse, children, parents, grandparents, and siblings. Priority is given to the closest degree of kinship.

Yes. The Moudawana applies to any relationship where one party is Moroccan. Foreign court judgments on inheritance must undergo the Exequatur process to be enforceable in Morocco.

Under Article 369 of the Moudawana, it protects grandchildren whose parent died before the grandparent. They receive a share equal to what their parent would have inherited, capped at one-third of the estate.