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ABSTRACT
It is very painful as a person to be deprived of the rights that you are entitled to just because you are not the biological child of your parents, or you were born out of wedlock due to your parents wrong choices or yet again simply because you are female. Unfortunately, this is the sad reality of most people in society. In response to changing socioeconomic conditions, the need for reforms of the prevalent customary law of inheritance becomes very imperative. If the purpose of law is to regulate the behavioural pattern of people in society, and society itself is not static, then the customary laws of inheritance and succession should change in line with the changing social norms and values. Considered in the light of changing societal norms and values, it will not be derogatory to say that some of the customary rules of inheritance no longer reflects current public opinion and behaviour. Furthermore, customary law rules of inheritance do not in many other respects provide a complete answer to contemporary problems which its evolution did not anticipate. Although one does not doubt the fact that customary rules will remain for a long time as the law which will regulate the inheritance and succession rights amongst people under native law, experience has shown that the process by which customary law changes by usage is slow. If customary law is not to be exposed to abuse, ridicule, and circumvention by fiction, a more positive process for its reform is a necessity.
