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Statutory Inheritance Share Calculator

STATUTORY INHERITANCE SHARES

Inheritance shares based on your family ties.

Fill in the family tree from the point of view of the deceased. See the shares as fractions and percentages. It is intended for undisputed statutory inheritance cases governed by Turkish law that do not involve the special circumstances below.

Date of deathEstate to be divided (TRY, optional)

Enter the estate after the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime, debts and related costs have been taken into account. The tool does not calculate these, tax or reserved shares.

Was there a surviving legal spouse at the date of death?

1. Children and their descendants

Add children in common, legal children from previous relationships and children adopted by the deceased. A child’s sex, or which marriage the child is from, does not change the share.

2. The deceased’s mother and father and their descendants

These are not the spouse’s mother and father. If the deceased was adopted, do not add the adoptive parents here; the inheritance link in the deceased’s birth family applies. Enter a full sibling in both parents’ branches; if that sibling is alive, give them the same shared person code in both branches, and their shares will be combined in the result. Enter only blood relatives in these branches; an adoption does not create inheritance rights in relation to the adopter’s relatives.

The deceased’s motherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

The deceased’s fatherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

3. The deceased’s own grandparents

The maternal and paternal grandmothers and both grandfathers. A mother-in-law or father-in-law does not belong to this group. If there is a spouse, the grandparents’ grandchildren (cousins, for example) cannot take a share in this order.

The deceased’s maternal grandmotherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

The deceased’s maternal grandfatherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

The deceased’s paternal grandmotherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

The deceased’s paternal grandfatherStatus at the date of death

Add this person’s children, if any. If they left no children, leave this empty.

There is a will/contract of inheritance, a disclaimer, a waiver, disinheritance, unworthiness to inherit, an unborn child, a declaration of absence, disputed parentage/adoption, pending divorce proceedings or a foreign element.

If any of these applies, no automatic calculation is made. Mark an heir who died after the deceased as “Alive” at the date of the first death; that heir’s own estate is calculated separately. Enter all family branches in full.

I have entered the relevant family branches in full and checked that nobody marked “Died before the deceased” is alive.

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Once you enter the family details, the table of shares and a chart of the distribution will appear here.

Adopted children, stepchildren and in-laws

An adopted child and their descendants inherit from the adopter as blood relatives would; the adopted child remains an heir in their own birth family. The adopter and the adopter’s relatives, however, do not become statutory heirs of the adopted child through this relationship. If only one of the spouses adopted the child, no inheritance link with the other spouse arises automatically. Nor does an adopted child become a statutory heir of the adopter’s mother or father merely because of the adoption (TCC arts. 314, 500).

Being only the spouse’s child, or a mother-in-law or father-in-law, does not make someone a direct statutory heir of the deceased. A gift by will is assessed separately. The share the surviving spouse receives becomes part of that spouse’s own estate if they later die; it may pass to their children or, where the conditions are met, to their mother and father. This second death is calculated separately.

How are the shares determined?

How large is the spouse’s share?

With descendants, 1/4; with the order of the parents, 1/2; with the deceased’s grandparents and their children, 3/4. If there are none of these, the whole estate (TCC art. 499).

What happens to the share of a child who died first?

Their own descendants take their place through that branch. For example, if there is no spouse, and there is one living child and two children of another child who died first: the living child takes 1/2 and each grandchild 1/4 (TCC art. 495).

Are my spouse’s mother and father included in this calculation?

No, being an in-law does not by itself make someone a statutory heir. The third order consists of the deceased’s two grandmothers and two grandfathers and those of their descendants specified by law (TCC arts. 18, 497).

Official source: Turkish Civil Code No. 4721 · Ministry of Justice (in Turkish); in particular arts. 18, 181, 314–315, 495–501 and 580–582. Legal content last checked: 7 November 2026.

Deaths before 2002 and special circumstances are outside the scope. Reserved shares, abatement, hotchpot, liquidation of the matrimonial property regime and inheritance tax are not calculated.

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