{"id":85022,"date":"2020-08-12T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16855"},"modified":"2020-08-12T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:38:08","slug":"daughters-have-equal-birthright-to-inherit-property-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/daughters-have-equal-birthright-to-inherit-property-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughters have equal birthright to inherit property: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Supreme&nbsp;Court held&nbsp;that daughters, like sons, have an equal birthright to inherit joint Hindu family property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Court ruled that a Hindu woman\u2019s right to be a joint heir to the ancestral property is by birth and does not depend on whether her father was alive or not when the law was enacted in 2005.&nbsp;<\/li><li>&nbsp;The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 gave Hindu women the right to be coparceners or joint legal heirs in the same way a male heir does.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional facts:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hindu Succession Act, 1956<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The&nbsp;Mitakshara&nbsp;school of Hindu law codified as the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 governed succession and inheritance of property but only&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;males as legal heirs.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In 2005, the law was amended&nbsp;and women were&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;as coparceners or joint legal heirs for partition&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:&nbsp;The Supreme&nbsp;Court held&nbsp;that daughters, like sons, have an equal birthright to inherit joint Hindu family property.&nbsp; Facts:&nbsp; The Court ruled that a Hindu woman\u2019s right to be a joint heir to the ancestral property is by birth and does not depend on whether her father was alive or not when the law was enacted in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/daughters-have-equal-birthright-to-inherit-property-supreme-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daughters have equal birthright to inherit property: Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-85022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-inheritance-rights","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704625183},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}