Discriminatory Familiy Code - Inheritance Rights of Widows | Land Portal

This indicator is a sub-component of the Discriminatory Family Code Indicator and measures whether widows and widowers have equal inheritance rights. It ranges from 0 to 1 and the interpretation is as follows:

0: The law guarantees the same inheritance rights to both widows and widowers.

0.5: The law guarantees the same inheritance rights to both widows and widowers, but there are some customary, traditional or religious practices that discriminate against widows.

1: The law does not guarantee the same inheritance rights to widows and widowers, or widows have no inheritance rights at all.

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This indicator is a sub-component of the Discriminatory Family Code Indicator and measures whether widows and widowers have equal inheritance rights.

Measurement unit: 
Index (0; 1)
Social Institutions and Gender Index Database
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Indicator details

Measurement unit: 
Index (0; 1)
Best value is: 
Low

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