A daughter’s marriage against her parent’s will does not automatically remove her legal rights in HUF property.

The case involves a dispute over whether properties that had come to the woman’s father from her grandfather retained the ...

In a recent judgement, the Andhra Pradesh High Court held that in cases involving ancestral property, each coparcener or co-sharer (like sons and daughters) holds an independent and vested interest in ...

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 ...

Being a child of the property owner does not automatically mean you have a claim. The nature of the property and the way it passes on after death are key ...

Although the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, had accorded coparcenary rights to daughters on equal terms as sons—amending the 1956 Act which did not interfere with the Mitakshara law wherein ...

The story so far: On August 11, the Supreme Court of India held that daughters, like sons, have an equal right to inherit ancestral property. The legislation that conferred coparcenary status on women ...

The latest decision of the Supreme Court on the right of Hindu daughters to ancestral property corrects an obvious anomaly in the interpretation of a crucial 2005 amendment to the Hindu Succession Act ...

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 ...

For many Indian families, the phrase “ancestral property” carries a simple meaning: a house, land or other asset that has been passed down from the grandfather to the father and then to the children.

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 ...