Bollywood actor Shraddha Kapoor celebrated a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Turning to Instagram, the actor shared the news on Supreme Court’s ruling about giving daughters equal ...

Although the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, had accorded coparcenary rights to daughters on equal terms as sons—amending the 1956 Act which did not interfere with the Mitakshara law wherein ...

The recent judgment of the Supreme Court on the property rights of women in Vineeta Sharma vs Rakesh Sharma and Ors, has understandably caused a stir. The judgment, which has been referred to as ...

The Indian judiciary continues to take progressive steps towards making succession law more women friendly. In the landmark case of Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma (Judgment), a 3 judge Bench of the ...

Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father ...

We have assumed that you follow the Hindu religion and are governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. If the ancestral property was inherited by your father from his father, father’s father or father ...

The Supreme Court recently made a historic decision about the rights of daughters to property. It ruled that daughters would have equal coparcenary rights in Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) properties ...

Coparcenary property: Under Dayabhaga law, a coparcener does not acquire any interest in the coparcenary property by birth, but instead it is on the death of the father, leaving two or more male ...

The latest decision of the Supreme Court on the right of Hindu daughters to ancestral property corrects an obvious anomaly in the interpretation of a crucial 2005 amendment to the Hindu Succession Act ...

Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father ...