The Tradition of Kadazan Ethnic - Part 1
Hi all, for today entry I will share with you how the Kadazan's distribute their inheritance/property to their relatives.
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According to the tradition, there is two type of distribution. UNGKUS MANTAD MOHOING or Inheritance and PINONGINDOPUAN SONDI Own Property.
Ungkus Mantad Mohoing / Inheritance
Basically, this inheritance inherited from generation to another generation but I'm not really sure whether it still practiced.
Anyway, below is the level who have the privilege of claiming the deceased's inheritance.
No. 1 - All the deceased children.
No. 2 - The deceased's parents if they still alive. (Situation: When no. 1 is not applicable)
No. 3 - The deceased's sibling. (Situation: When no. 1 & 2 is not applicable)
No. 4 - The sibling of the deceased's parents. (Situation: When no. 1, 2 & 3 is not applicable)
No. 5 - The heirs of the deceased's grandparents family. (Situation: When no. 1, 2, 3 & 4 is not applicable)
If all the above situation is not applicable, then only the deceased's wife have the right to claimed the inheritance. But if one day the deceased's heirs come to claim for it, so she have to give it to them. In return, the heirs have to pay incentive/salary to her because she helped them to keep and maintain their inheritance.
Pinongindopuan Sondi / Own Property
This distribution property acquired divide to three situation.
Situation no. 1 - The deceased is not married. Since he/she still single, all the property will go to their parents or siblings.
Situation no. 2 - The deceased married but have no child. In this situation, the property must divide into two portion. One portion will go to the wife and the other portion will go to deceased's heirs. While if the wife passed away, the husband do have right to claim 100% of the property because he has paid berian or dowry before they married.
Situation no. 3 - The deceased (husband) do have child. For this situation, the wife will only be the trustee for their children. She responsible to keep the property until their children grow up. If the wife passed away or married with someone else before the child reach 21 years old, the close relatives will be appointed as their new trustee.
Now, do you know and understand your rights? Well, I hope with this sharing it is useful to all my kadazan friends. So fight for your rights..hahaha. That's all for now!
Next entry will be explain in Malay...senang skit😂😂
Proud of your post. Educational and informative. Sila translate kio.
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I'm a Kadazan too, but I have never heard about this tradition before. Maybe because I don't practice law, so I'm not qualified to debate on this matter. I think, people nowadays refers more to a modern laws stated by the government, but it won't be any much different to the traditional ones to my opinion.
Yeah. That's why I'm happy to share this information to everyone, but I think some of the kadazan community still followed the tradition. Remember few tourists took naked photo @ mount kinabalu? The community bring them to high court. Unfortunately, they only kena sogit and been released from jail because the court followed the kadazan tradition.