Question:
My father died a few months ago, in his will he wrote all his assets to his children, my father married another woman five years ago, [after the death of our mother seven years ago], and lived with his second wife in an apartment they rented after their marriage. Now the widow asks that we should continue to pay her rent in which she lives from our father’s inheritance as our father pledged in the address to the widow section.
The question is, whether we should give her from the father’s inheritance, since our step mother has her own apartment that rented for high rent.
Answer:
A widow section charge is the same as a widow’s child support charge, which is a charge that the husband commits to his wife at the time of their marriage to take care of his wife for living, from his own money even after his death, [as long as he does not claim the payment of ‘cetubah’ and does not marry another man]. This payment does not depend on whether the widow has a house of her own or not, the inheritance money is enslaved to pay the widow’s section as long as she is not married to another person.
