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Supreme Court rulings clarify that daughters alive on September 9, 2005 have equal coparcenary rights in HUF ancestral property, ensuring gender equality in inheritance law.
Supreme Court clarifies the legal difference between ancestral and self-acquired property, confirming equal coparcenary rights for daughters under Hindu law.
Delhi High Court rules that limitation in partition suits involving joint family property is a mixed question of law and fact, holding that such cases cannot be dismissed at the t…
Madras High Court rules that mortgage deeds or revenue records in a brother’s name cannot deny sisters equal coparcenary rights under Hindu Succession Act, 2005.
Karnataka High Court urges Centre to review Section 6 of Hindu Succession Act, citing ambiguity in widows’ and mothers’ inheritance rights after 2005 amendment.