Yes. A 30-day survivorship clause stops an estate passing through a beneficiary who dies days later, incurring two administrations.
The Canadian position
It works alongside provincial commorientes rules.
Particularly important where spouses travel together.
The Islamic position
The fixed shares apply to the net estate after funeral expenses, debts and any bequest capped at one third.
Where a Canadian mechanism has no classical counterpart, treat it as a contemporary question for a scholar rather than assuming an answer.
Three schools say no: neither inherits from the other, and each estate goes to that person’s own surviving heirs, because inheriting requires proof that the heir outlived the deceased and there is none. That is the position the sources trace to Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and Zayd b. Thabit, who applied it to the fallen of al-Yamama, the dead of the plague of ‘Amwas and the slain of al-Harra. The Hanbali school takes the opposite view, following another ruling of ‘Umar and of ‘Ali: each does inherit from the other — but only out of the property that person already owned, never out of what he inherited from the one who died with him.
All four Sunni schools researched and sourced. Reviewed 2026-09-01. Full positions, evidence and sources — Two heirs die in the same accident.
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Citations & sources
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position. Anything under “further reading” is related material, not a source for what is stated here.
- Succession Law Reform Act, RSO 1990, c S.26 — Government of Ontario
- Administering estates — Government of Ontario
- Survivorship period clause ontario — Treadstone Law
- Beneficiary dies before you ontario will — Treadstone Law
- Rdsp beneficiary rules holder dies ontario — Treadstone Law
- Survivorship application after co owner dies ontario — Treadstone Law
- Wills & estates practice — Treadstone Law