Lerners Estate Islamic Will

Islamic Estate Planning in Ontario

Lerners LLP drafts Islamic wills inside a 13-lawyer Wills, Trusts & Estates practice at a full-service Ontario firm with four offices (London, Toronto, Strathroy, Kitchener-Waterloo). Its published guidance correctly states the classical faraid distribution - husband 1/2 falling to 1/4 with children, wife 1/4 to 1/8, parents 1/6 each, children sharing residue 2:1 - against Ontario's intestacy regime, which would otherwise hand a surviving spouse a $350,000 preferential share contrary to faraid. The Islamic expertise rests on an identified associate, Sanan (Sunny) Mirza, rather than institutional religious oversight; the firm disclaims religious advice and publishes no pricing.

Lerners is the institutional-heavyweight option among Canadian Islamic will providers: a full-service Ontario firm whose Wills, Trusts & Estates group brings litigation and probate depth that matters precisely when an estate is high-value, business-holding, or likely to be contested - the scenarios where DIY will platforms are weakest. Its published guidance shows real fluency, correctly mapping fixed faraid shares against Ontario's $350,000 spousal preferential share under intestacy. The trade-offs are transparency and religious authority: no pricing is published, no Sharia board or scholar certification exists, and the firm explicitly disclaims religious advice, resting its Islamic capability on one identified associate. Best for Ontario Muslims with complex estates who want big-firm drafting and will bring their own scholar to verify the distribution schedule.