Legal Frameworks

HEIR supports 11 inheritance frameworks across 190+ jurisdictions. Each framework maps legal rules to smart contract logic and document templates.

Supported Frameworks

Framework	Summary	Typical Jurisdictions
Common Law	Testamentary freedom, per-capita or per-stirpes distribution	US, UK, Canada, Australia
Civil Law	Forced heirship and reserved portions	France, Germany, Spain
Islamic Law	Quranic fixed shares + optional Wasiyyah/Waqf	GCC, MENA, parts of Asia
Jewish Law	Halachic inheritance structures	Israel, diaspora jurisdictions
Hindu Law	Hindu Succession Act frameworks	India
Chinese Law	PRC civil code inheritance rules	China
Japanese Law	Civil Code inheritance rules	Japan
Christian Law	Christian customary frameworks	Global
African Customary	Regional customary inheritance patterns	Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous	Indigenous community inheritance traditions	Jurisdiction-specific
Secular/Custom	User-defined or secular custom logic	Global

Use inheritanceTemplate in contract generation:

json

{
  "inheritanceTemplate": "common-law"
}

See: /api/contracts and the template list endpoint for available template IDs.