How do I make an Islamic will in Longueuil?
The same way as anywhere in Quebec — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Longueuil will law. Wills are provincial, so the rules that decide whether your will is valid are Quebec’s. What is genuinely local is everything around the will: which mosques here can perform a janazah, where they bury, and what it costs.
- Work out the shares. The faraid calculator gives every heir’s fraction under the school you follow, with a written report you can hand to a drafter.
- Meet Quebec’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — valid (the Quebec formalities in full).
- Check your beneficiary designations. An RRSP, a TFSA or a life policy with a named beneficiary may pass outside the estate under Canadian law — whether it also sits outside the tarikah is disputed among contemporary scholars, so do not assume it escapes the shares.
- Have it drafted. The Registry does not draft wills. Treadstone Law, an independent Ontario firm, handles the drafting side.
- Record where it is kept — free, and it is what lets your executor find it.
Municipalities have no jurisdiction over wills or estates. Under s. 92(13) of the Constitution Act, 1867 that is provincial. Any page promising a “Longueuil Islamic will” is selling you a Quebec will.
The Quebec rules that decide whether it works
| Governing statute | Civil Code of Québec |
| Court | Superior Court of Québec |
| Handwritten (holograph) wills | Valid. Quebec recognises three forms: notarial, holograph, and witnessed wills. |
| Probate cost | No probate tax based on the value of the estate. A notarial will requires no probate at all because it is an authentic act. A holograph will or a will made in the presence of witnesses must be probated, before either the Superior Court or a notary, and a flat judicial fee of $241 applies (plus $60.25 to file the notary’s minutes where the notarial route is used). Notary or lawyer fees are separate and professional. |
| Spouse’s share if there is no will | There is no preferential dollar amount in Quebec. Two things happen before the succession is divided: the family patrimony is partitioned and the matrimonial or civil union regime is liquidated. What is left devolves by fractions — where the deceased leaves a spouse and descendants, the spouse takes one third and the descendants two thirds; with no descendants but surviving parents, the spouse takes two thirds; with no descendants, parents, siblings or nieces/nephews, the spouse takes everything. IMPORTANT AND NEW: since 30 June 2025 a "parental union spouse" — an unmarried couple who become the parents of a child born or adopted on or after that date — is an heir alongside married and civil union spouses. Other de facto spouses still inherit nothing on intestacy. |
| Challenges to the will | Quebec has no wills-variation regime. Testamentary freedom is otherwise near-absolute, but the obligation to provide support survives death: a creditor of support may claim a financial contribution from the succession within six months of the death. The claim is capped — for a spouse or a descendant, at half of what they would have received had the whole estate devolved on intestacy, less whatever they actually take; for a former spouse, twelve months’ support; for anyone else, six months’ support, and in those two cases never more than 10% of the succession. |
Deeper: making a valid will · dying without one · probate · challenges.
Janazah services in Longueuil
An Islamic will usually records burial wishes — ghusl, kafan, burial without delay. A janazah needs physical facilities: a mortuary, cold storage, a washing room. Not every mosque has them.
We have not confirmed a janazah service at any of the 1 Longueuil mosque we list. That is a gap in our data, not a statement that none exists — see the directory entries and call to ask.
Where Longueuil’s mosques bury
Burial grounds in Longueuil
Muslim Section, Saint-Hubert (Brossard Islamic Centre) — a Muslim section within a wider cemetery. The South Shore's Muslim burial option: a Muslim section on chemin de Chambly in the Saint-Hubert borough of Longueuil, administered in association with the Brossard Islamic Centre, whose premises are at 5905 Grande Allee, Brossard J4Z 3G4. This is the closest Muslim burial ground for Longueuil, Brossard and South Shore families, who would otherwise cross to Laval. NEEDS VERIFICATION: no working website was found, so this entry rests on the Association de la Sepulture Musulmane du Quebec listing; size, plot availability and pricing are unconfirmed and a phone call is required.
What a burial costs here
The order of payment matters for a will: funeral expenses come out first, then debts, then any bequest — capped at one third — and only then are the fixed shares calculated. A large funeral bill shrinks every heir’s share. See the itemised costs for this region, with the plot, the grave opening and the mosque’s own fee separated.
Where to go next
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.
- Surah an-Nisa 4:11–12, 4:176 — Quran.com
- Book of Wills (Wasaya) — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sunnah.com
- Searching for a will — Gouvernement du Québec
- Search the registers of wills and mandates — Chambre des notaires du Québec