Income Tax - I believe you must have heard of Hindu Undivided Family (HUF). Most of the people think that this is a person which are created by some kind of Agreements etc. Well, if you are also one of them then it's time to bust your myth about that. Because the fact is something far different from that. So, Let's understand the concept in a bit deta...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Tax Planning is an important agenda of any individual. People often end up paying taxes even after exhausting their limits under Section 80C, 80 D and so on. However, do you know that a very important tool which is often overlooked, is formation of a HUF, which is a legitimate way of reducing your tax liability....
Read MoreIncome Tax - A Will becomes enforceable only after the death of the testator. It gives absolutely no rights to the legatee (the person who inherits) until the death of the testator. It has no effect during the lifetime of the testator. A testator can change his Will, at any time, in any manner he deems fit. ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - A written and a registered Will, is the best and most convenient way for you to pass on your estate to the persons whom you want to....
Read MoreIncome Tax - When a person dies unwilled, then The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 applies for division of wealth. This law applies to Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs. Money is so powerful that relation doesn’t take time to break. Family members can really fight over the issue of who gets how much out of the wealth and a lot of times unexpected things...
Read MoreIncome Tax - An unmarried Hindu woman is entitled to equal share in ancestral or coparcenery property along with other male members under the amended Hindu Succession Act, the Supreme Court has held. Coparcenary refers to equal inheritance which was restricted only to male members of the Hindu Undivided Family but after succesive amendements several s...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The marriage between a Hindu and a non-Hindu solemnised as per the Hindu rites is neither valid nor the parties can claim any benefits under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), the Delhi High Court has ruled....
Read MoreIncome Tax - he Bombay High Court ruled on Wednesday that no part of an ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away. The court in a landmark order while resolving the dispute over a 69-year-old gift deed declared as void the document dating back to 1941, which said that Miraj resident Mallapa had gifted a portion of his ancestral property to hi...
Read MoreKehar Singh (D) Thr. L.Rs. & Ors.Vs Nachittar Kaur & Ors. (Supreme Court) - Kehar Singh (D) Thr. L.Rs. & Ors.Vs Nachittar Kaur & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) Once the factum of existence of legal necessity stood proved, then, in our view, no co-coparcener (son) has a right to challenge the sale made by the Karta of his family. The plaintiff being a son was...
Read MoreMangammal @ Thulasi and Anr. Vs T.B. Raju and Ors. (Supreme Court of India) - This appeal is preferred against the impugned judgment and order dated 18.09.2006 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in S.A. No. 780 of 2006 whereby learned single Judge of the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the appellants herein at the admission stage....
Read MoreDanamma @ Suman Surpur vs Amar (Supreme Court of India) - Rights of daughters in coparcenary property as per the amended S. 6 are not lost merely because a preliminary decree has been passed in a partition suit. So far as partition suits are concerned, the partition becomes final only on the passing of a final decree. Where such situation arises, the preli...
Read MorePrakash & Ors Vs Phulavati & Ors (Supreme Court of India) - Supreme Court held In the case of Prakash & Ors vs. Phulavati & Ors that the text of the amendment itself clearly provides that the right conferred on a ‘daughter of a coparcener’ is ‘on and from the commencement of Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005’....
Read MoreMrs. Sujata Sharma Vs Shri Manu Gupta (Delhi High Court) - In a judgment that is expected to have far reaching ramifications, the Delhi High Court has ruled that a female member of a Hindu Undivided Family can also be the ‘karta’. Falling prey to the patriarchal system, this role of leadership has been traditionally inherited by men of the household....
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Kehar Singh (D) Thr. L.Rs. & Ors.Vs Nachittar Kaur & Ors. (Supreme Court) -
Mangammal @ Thulasi and Anr. Vs T.B. Raju and Ors. (Supreme Court of India) -
Danamma @ Suman Surpur vs Amar (Supreme Court of India) -