Kenya: Court Rules Only Son Has No Exclusive Right to Inherit Parent’s Estate

A Malaba court has ruled that being the only son of a deceased person does not give a beneficiary an exclusive right to take sole control of a parent’s estate.

Resident Magistrate Ogange rejected a claim by a beneficiary who argued that he should be appointed the sole administrator of his late parent’s estate because he was the only male child.

In a ruling delivered at the Malaba Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court on September 2, 2026, the court instead appointed him as a…