The primary rule to follow is: do not make rash and immediate decisions. Take time to consider what you have inherited and how to use it in...

Akshay Kumar’s horror comedy Bhooth Bangla has released in theatres and is already drawing attention for its OTT plans. As per reports, the...

Courts now demand concrete proof for ancestral property claims. Simply calling property ancestral is insufficient. Claimants must establish...

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

The Bombay High Court ruled that land inherited by a son from his father after 1956 is his self-acquired property, not ancestral. This gran...

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

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...

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If the parents pass away intestate, the minor child, being a class I heir, will have the first right to the property, but cannot manage it ...

Readers' estate planning queries answered by Raj Lakhotia, Founder, Dilsewill.

Readers' estate planning queries answered.

Does my husband have a claim over my property? What measures can I take to ensure that my sons remain my heirs, but my own safety is also a...

Any property that is acquired by a person himself, either by way of his own resources or by way of division of the ancestral property, is h...

The Supreme Court in its judgement gave equal rights to daughters as sons. Would it mean that under no circumstances can a daughter be deni...

A widow's share in the joint family property of the deceased husband is only up to the share that would have come to him out of that family...

Since the property is ancestral, you have a right to it by birth and the same right over it as your brothers.

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