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 ...

A father cannot legally give away his daughter’s share in ancestral property to her brother simply by signing a relinquishment deed, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ruled, reaffirming that women ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: A woman cannot claim a share as a coparcener in the self-acquired properties of her grandfather that came to her father through a family partition, Karnataka high court has ruled. Get ...

If your father inherited property from his father, can he sell or bequeath it without your consent? Here's what Hindu law ...

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 ...

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh high court, in a recent judgement, held that a daughter is entitled to an equal share with her brother in ancestral coparcenary property. The court observed that if the ...

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 ...

As per Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 as amended in 2005, on the death of a coparcener, a partition is deemed to have taken place immediately before the death of the deceased coparcener. ...