The concept of a Hindu joint family is unique to Hindus. It is legally recognised and what is interesting to note is that the express retention of both Hindu joint ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madras HC dismissed a brother’s argument that his sister couldn't claim share in family property because their father had ...

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. ...