In contemporary discourse, the concept of Sanatan Dharma has become a battleground for political maneuvering. While it is often framed as a...

The Supreme Court ruled that property mutation entries do not confer ownership or title. A property dispute involving ancestral land, a con...

The Chhattisgarh High Court ruled that a married daughter is not entitled to a share in her father's ancestral land if he died before 1956....

Chhattisgarh High Court ruled daughters cannot inherit ancestral property if succession opened before 1956. Mitakshara Law applied then, gr...

A sister's children claimed rights to their grandfather's land sold by their uncle. The Kerala High Court ruled against them. The court fou...

The Delhi High Court has made a significant ruling on Hindu inheritance law. It states that grandchildren cannot claim a share in their gra...

A Hindu wife is a class I heir with an equal right to her deceased husband's property, while a Muslim wife without children gets a one-four...

Uttarakhand UCC Law: Uttarakhand became the first state in the country to pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The UCC will make the uniform ...

There are times when family disputes reach a point of no return. When such a situation arises, parents may want to completely cut off their...

As per the Hindu Succession Act, if a Hindu Male dies intestate (i.e. without having a will), then class-I legal heirs will have first righ...

The latest Supreme Court Judgement deals with the issue of the legal right of a daughter to inherit 'self-acquired' property of her father ...

Justice Murari, writing the 51-page judgment for the bench, also dealt with the question of whether such property will devolve on to the da...

The best part about making a Will is that only the woman gets to choose who will enjoy the benefit of her assets after her demise. Even mor...

As per Hindu Succession Act, 1956, there is a scenario where the husband of a Hindu woman who has died intestate will not be the legal heir...

Section 14 of Hindu Succession Act describes what constitutes a woman’s property, owned and acquired by her. It does not distinguish betwee...

Whether you are a wife, daughter or mother, find out what you are entitled to and how you can claim it.

Besides the lag in the implementation of the 2005 amendment, the Hindu inheritance law is in need of further changes for it to be rid of th...