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Supreme Court Ruling on Daughters by Atharva Mahendra Kotwal is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Supreme Court upheld the right of daughters to an equal share in ancestral property as sons, including for daughters born before the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. The Court clarified that the 2005 amendment to the Act makes daughters coparceners by birth with equal rights to sons. This applies to all property disputes filed before 2005 as well. Prior law held that daughters lost coparcener rights upon marriage, but the amended law maintains these rights for daughters in their father
- Author
- Atharva Mahendra Kotwal
- Language
- EN