The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that as per the Mitakshara school of law, a daughter is not entitled to inherit the ...
Citing at least eighteen conflicting precedents from two- and three-judge benches, the Supreme Court referred the vexed questions under Section 14 to a larger bench. The inquiry aims to reconcile ...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday released the Tamil Nadu State Policy for Transgender Persons 2025. The policy said that the State would take steps to amend the Hindu Succession Act, Indian ...
The Supreme Court has observed that it would move cautiously while examining challenges to provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and that it would be wary of shattering the Hindu social ...
A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan was hearing petitions challenging certain provisions of succession under the 1956 Act.
"Have you heard that the Supreme Court gave a historic verdict in 2020 to give daughters the right to ancestral property from their birth? Know how Indian law changed the status of daughters' property ...
Sister’s children file case against uncle for selling their grandfather’s 2 acre land without partitioning a share with them, ...
New Delhi: Women in India may now have inheritance rights on paper, but families still shut daughters out, even as courts keep flipping their stance with contradictory rulings. And data collected by ...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has observed that it will move cautiously while examining challenges to provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and that it would be wary of shattering the Hindu ...