Question: I have done an agreement for agricultural land 2 months ago and paid 20 lacs. That is ancestral property and the owner is 62 years old, now he has 3 sisters of which 2 are dead. Does the son of a deceased sister have any right in ancestral property? So now do we need the signature of the...
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Illegitimate son claim share in ancestral property
Question: Can an illegitimate son claim his share in his father’s ancestral property? My father has solemnised second marriage in hush-hush. We came to know about his illegal marriage after sixteen years. Then my mother left our home and started living in her parents' home. We are three siblings...
Can my sister sue my children for partition?
Question: Can my sister sue my children for partition of ancestral property? I got the land from my father but I have given it to my children. We are two brothers and one sister. I’m the youngest. After the death of my father his property devolved upon me and my brother. I have transferred those...
Can my sister claim share in ancestral property after partition?
Question: My father died in 2010. Thereafter, I have partitioned the ancestral property on mutual agreement of brothers. I have two brothers and one sister. Only brothers got share in ancestral property. I want to know whether my sister can claim share in ancestral property after partition....
Daughter gets right in ancestral property by birth
The Supreme Court has held in the Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma, (2020) 9 SCC 1; that daughter gets right in the ancestral property by birth. She will get share in the ancestral property even if her father has died before the 20th September 2005. There was a contradiction in the two...
Division of self acquired and ancestral property
The self acquired property of the deceased person devolves upon his legal heir if the deceased dies intestate (without making a will). So far as ancestral property is concerned the coparceners of Hindu undivided family get share in the ancestral property by birth. Therefore, a Hindu cannot alienate ancestral property by making a testamentary will. The legal heirs can divide the self acquired and ancestral property either by filing a partition suit or through a family settlement deed.
Can father gift ancestral property to daughter in law
All the coparceners have joint possession and rights in the ancestral property. Father cannot gift all ancestral property to his daughter in law. There is a separate procedure for making such a gift. However, the father can alienate his share in the ancestral property to any person either by the way of gift or sale.
Right of daughter in coparcenary property
I want to know about the right of daughter in the father's property. Respected Sir, I need your valuable suggestions towards property rights of my mother and her sister. Their grandfather had few agriculture land and home property. He had settled those property among his four sons equally using a...
Can wife claim husband’s paternal property
My husband is a qualified doctor but he has not been practicing for seven years. I have two sons and one daughter. When my husband does not take care of us, can I claim my husband's paternal property? My husband does not own any immovable property. He is a jobless person. My father-in-law is a...
How the daughters get share in the ancestral property after the amendment act 2005
How the daughters get a share in the ancestral property? I am 34 years married daughter, live in Delhi. My ancestral property situates in UP Bagpat. We are 4 brothers & sister and my brother has died in a road accident, now we are three sisters only. As per the govt of India regulations the...
Who will get the agricultural land after father’s death?
Who will get the agricultural land after father's death? Father holds one-acre agricultural land. He has a wife, three daughters and one son. Question from Andhra Pradesh This agricultural land is ancestral property therefore your father is not the absolute owner. Your father has three sons and...
Fake registration of sale deed of my ancestral property
The “Karta” or manager of the joint Hindu family can sell the ancestral land. His power to alienate the ancestral property has some restrictions. He can sell the land for the legal necessity and for the benefit of the family. Only male coparcener can discharge the duty of “Karta”. Your grandmother could not perform the duty of “Karta” because she is not a coparcener.