Even with a scope limited to membership in pension schemes, the study shows that the tradition that children inherit parents’ property upon their death almost automatically could be slowly but surely changing. According to Dr Nyachieo, parents generally wish to have their property go to their children upon death regardless of intervening factors such as the children’s inability to manage the assets. She says that it is only in cases when men doubt paternity that they become reluctant to pass over wealth to children. While children, regardless of age and gender, have a right to inherit their parents’ wealth, the law does not compel any parent to leave an inheritance to them. ''I have nothing valuable to leave for my children, unless my clothes and these sufurias here!''

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2019 18:00 UTC