21.   There are bills which, among other things, allow domestic partners to inherit property, make funeral arrangements and sue for wrongful death.

22.   There can be problems, too, when an old property is inherited by several family members.

23.   Usually, when a child inherits property, it is through an estate overseen by the other parent or another relative.

24.   Women could inherit property and control their dowries.

25.   Yet women are not granted the right to initiate divorce and can only inherit property that is less than that portion belonging to a man, says Newby.

26.   After the war, the communist government inherited Jewish property stolen by the Nazis, and Jewish organizations say the government then confiscated even more.

27.   In Florida and New Mexico, the state constitution still gives the state government the option of banning Asian immigrants from owning or inheriting property.

28.   In Nepal, sons automatically inherit parental property.

29.   In some countries half the population is forbidden to own land or inherit property simply because they are women.

30.   Nearly seven decades after the state Legislature banned Asian immigrants from inheriting property in Kansas, the law has been struck from the books.