An analysis on the implication of unclaimed estates in Shah Alam / Nadzirah Balqis Hishamuddin Shah

Unclaimed estates are the estates that does not have a specific ownership after the death of the deceased. Unclaimed estates are one of the issues that faced by Malaysia since independence day of Malaysia on 31st August which is 60 years ago. As a result, many implications of unclaimed estates are happening because of the family disputes, overlapping owners, tax arrears and so on. Other than that, lack of awareness in the knowledge and attitude also contributed to the fall down of unclaimed estates in economy of country and Islam. This issue is being complicated and the amount of unclaimed estates are increase every year without any effort of solution from the political will. Therefore, the strong method has to be apply in individually, community and country to solve the problems of unclaimed estates. This research is discussing about the factors of unclaimed estates, the institutions that involved in managing the estates and various thing about unclaimed estates. The results of the study are talk about the implication of unclaimed estates is the people are failed to claiming their estates to be utilize in their daily life. It is hope that the study can contribute to help the responsible parties to solve the problem and reduce the issue of unclaimed estates.