Halakhah for Ketubot 4:11
בְּנָן נֻקְבִין דְּיֶהֶוְיָן לִיכִי מִנַּאי, יֶהֶוְיָן יָתְבָן בְּבֵיתִי וּמִתְּזָנָן מִנִּכְסַי עַד דְּתִנַּסְּבָן לְגֻבְרִין, חַיָּב, שֶׁהוּא תְנַאי בֵּית דִּין:
If he did not write [in her <i>ketubah</i>], "The female children that you will have with me shall live in my house, and be fed out of my property, until they are betrothed by men," he is, [nonetheless] obligated, as that is a [fixed] stipulation [enacted] by the court.
Gray Matter III
Although a daughter does not inherit if there are sons, each unmarried daughter is entitled to ten percent4Attorney Martin Shenkman suggests that this distribution is determined net of any estate tax because of dina d’malchuta dina (the obligation to follow the laws of the country in which we reside), as the tax money effectively belongs to the government from the start. of the estate to be used for her dowry (Ketubot 6:6, ibid. 68a, and Shulchan Aruch E.H. 113:1). In addition, a daughter has the right to be supported by the estate until she is betrothed or reaches the age of bat mitzvah (Ketubot 4:11).
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