From In re Estate of Ahmad, decided Mar. 23 by the Maryland intermediate appellate court, in an opinion by Judge Dan Friedman, joined by Justices Douglas Nazarian and Terrence Zic:
The decedent, Mehdi Ahmad, was born in Iran in 1923…. In 1982, after being summoned to appear before the Islamic Revolutionary Court, Mehdi left Iran and traveled to Turkey. Shortly thereafter, Mehdi immigrated to the United States and settled in Maryland…. In 1996, Mehdi became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Mehdi died on November 30, 2018.
Mehdi's will disinherited Mehdi's eldest son, M. Abraham Ahmad, who tried to challenge it on various grounds, partly on the theory that "under Iranian laws, he inherited an indefeasible fixed portion of Mehdi's estate that automatically vested at his birth and applies to all assets that can be traced to assets that Mehdi owned when Abraham was born in Iran." No, said the court, for various reasons, including this:
