Ancestral properties are not exempt from attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, the Delhi High Court has ruled. The...

The Delhi High Court has declared that properties passed down through generations can indeed be seized under the Prevention of Money Launde...

In the Vishwambhar v. Sow Sunanda case, the Bombay High Court ruled that the granddaughter who sought a partition of and claimed a share in...

Children from a late Hindu husband's first and second marriages will share his ancestral property. The Odisha High Court clarified that off...

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

In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court has denied a granddaughter's claim to her maternal grandfather's ancestral property, clarify...

Maharashtra gears up for the auction of Dawood Ibrahim's ancestral properties, including his childhood home, with a reserve price of ₹19 la...

The Indian Supreme Court has deferred ruling on whether non-marital children are entitled to a share of their parents' ancestral property u...

As some of the contesting counsel veered towards a consensus that under Section 16(3) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 a child born to a voi...

Both you and your sibling have an equal right over the ancestral property by virtue of your birth, as per the Hindu Succession (Amendment) ...

He said everyone is presumed to be innocent and is entitled to a fair trial "unlike in the court of the media or the court of BJP managed s...

If the ancestral property is undivided, you can file a suit to claim your share in consideration received from the sale of the property and...

Agreeing with their plea, the SC set aside the HC order and said the year of birth was not a criterion to decide whether a woman was covere...

The woman's father died in 2010, leaving behind three legal heirs — the woman and her two brothers. Their mother had passed away earlier.

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...

Marriage laws will now become more women friendly with the government today approving a slew of recommendations of a Group of Ministers (Go...

In a major judgement, the Supreme Court has ruled that a father can gift a reasonable portion of his ancestral immovable property to daught...