Talk:Forced heirship

hello wikipedia,

i don't know much about editing, but added some info on Louisiana law and removed the bit about dividing the estate into thirds, which doesn't apply here. i trust someone more versed in your formatting guidelines will organize it in a more appropriate manner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.81.70.167 (talk) 05:41, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some nonsense needs to be fixed

But I don't know how.

"Forced heirship laws are most prevalent among civil law jurisdictions and in Islamic countries; these include major countries such as France, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and most other countries in the world." (emphasis added) What does this even mean? Huw Powell (talk) 00:46, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It means that since the vast majority of countries of the world are civil law or Islamic jurisdictions, and since they ipso facto practice some form of forced heirship, then forced heirship is practiced in most of the world. That's: Latin America, most of Africa, Europe, and most of Asia. The countries excluded are common law countries and a few customary-law countries. Torvalu4 (talk) 23:09, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]