A Jurisprudential Study on the Exclusion of Spouses from the Inheritance Procedure in the Case of Prescribed Punishment of Qadhaf

Qadhaf is one of the Shariatic prescribed punishment which is also covered in the law. Article 260 of the Iranian Civil Code, adopted in 2013, stipulates that the heirs of the extruder from the libel limit exclude the couple from inheriting the libel. The main objective is to study the jurisprudential evidence of the exclusion of the couple from inheritance by defamation; of course, we have studied the views of jurists as a preliminary observation in this regard. This study was written using both jurisprudential and narrative sources and with a critical view of the views of jurists and legislators in the same law of inheritance procedure. In view of the characteristics of the inheritance procedure and the lack of evidence to exclude the couple, we conclude in this study that this article appears to be unsupported and incorrect. At the end of this study and in view of this finding, we have made suggestions to amend the article of the Iranian Civil Code.