WOMEN SHARE IN ANCESTRAL PROPERTY – SUPREME COURT OF INDIA`S OBSERVATION – “All that is required is that the daughter should be alive and her father should also be alive on the date of the amendment,”

The Supreme Court of India has said that women cannot inherit ancestral property if the father (coparcenor) died before the 2005 amendment in the Hindu law that gives property rights to the daughter in a landmark judgment delivered by the Bench comprising Justice Anil R Dave and Justice A.K. Goel, in its October 16, 2015, … Continue reading WOMEN SHARE IN ANCESTRAL PROPERTY – SUPREME COURT OF INDIA`S OBSERVATION – “All that is required is that the daughter should be alive and her father should also be alive on the date of the amendment,”