We have assumed that you follow the Hindu religion and are governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. If the ancestral property was inherited by your father from his father, father’s father or father ...

India, in ancient times bore the zeitgeist concepts of traditional joint Hindu family. A unit consisting of individuals related by blood, sharing a common roof, joined in food and worship and common ...

One of the biggest struggles that women have faced in India and elsewhere is being reduced to property – before marriage, she is the property of her parents and after marriage, she is the property of ...

Vijayawada: Answering an important legal question over the coparcenary (joint heirship) rights of daughters, the Andhra Pradesh high court delivered a judgment saying that daughters will hold their ...

The recent judgment of the Supreme Court on the property rights of women in Vineeta Sharma vs Rakesh Sharma and Ors, has understandably caused a stir. The judgment, which has been referred to as ...

The Supreme Court ruling that daughters have equal coparcenary rights in a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, came into ...

Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father ...

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, gave Hindu daughters their rightful due of their father’s property by extending the scope of a beneficial legislation introduced in 2005 to cases where the father was ...

Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father ...

New Delhi: Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the ...