Corporate Law - A women’s place in the marriage has been the cause of many matrimonial disputes. What is expected of a wife/daughter-in-law poses a problem in maintaining a healthy marriage. With the passage of time, the norms of society have changed and women no longer belong in the households only....
Read MoreCorporate Law - Interpretation of Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. Article explains the latest judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, delivered on 11-8-2020, in the case of ‘Vineeta Sharma Vs. Rakesh Sharma’, on the interpretation of Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, as amended by the Amendment Act of 2005. Introdu...
Read MoreCorporate Law - In a significant judgment on Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India ruled that a daughter will have a share in her ancestral property after the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 irrespective of the fact whether her father was alive or not at the time of the amendment....
Read MoreCorporate Law - Rights of Widow Under Hindu Succession The prevailing legislation at the time, however, was a colonial creation, called The Hindu Widow’s Remarriage Act, 1856. According to this legislation, a Hindu widow had to give up any right to property, or maintenance from her dead husband’s property (self-acquired and joint family property), if...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Daughter shall be a Coparcener of Hindu Family Property. If a Hindu dies, the coparcener property shall be allotted to the daughter as is allotted to sons. If a female coparcener dies before partition, then children of such coparcener would eligible for allotment assuming a partition had taken place immediately before her de...
Read MoreCorporate Law - 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 MoreCorporate Law - 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 MoreCorporate Law - 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 MoreKiran Devi Vs The Bihar State Sunni Wakf Board & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) - Kiran Devi Vs The Bihar State Sunni Wakf Board & Ors. (Supreme Court) 1. Supreme Court on Hindu Undivided Family, there cannot be any Presumption That Business Run By Karta In Tenented Premise Is Joint Family Asset. 2. The contract of tenancy is an independent contract than the joint Hindu famil...
Read MoreVineeta Sharma vs. Rakesh Sharma (Supreme Court) (Larger Bench) - Equality reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in a recent judgement delivered on August 11, 2020. It has been held that a daughter will have a share under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, irrespective of whether her father was alive or not at the time of the amendment....
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...
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