The Supreme Court this week maintained that the sole surviving daughter of a Hindu male is rightly entitled to the inheritance of the father who died without executing a will. The apex court has ruled that the daughter is competent for the inheritance property that can be both self-acquired or share received in the partition of coparcenary property.
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The court was considering whether property would devolve to a man’s daughter by inheritance after he died without a will, or to his brother by succession.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court in its observation stated that a daughter is also capable of inheriting the self-acquired property or share received in the partition of a coparcenary property of her Hindu father dying intestate(without a will). As per reports, the property in question was the self-acquired property of one Marappa Gounder. The question raised by the appellant was
In a significant judgement, the Supreme Court has held that inherited property of a female Hindu dying issueless and intestate will either go to the heirs of her parents or husband.