Family Law
Joint Hindu family and coparcenary, Karta, partition, Hindu intestate succession, stridhan, testamentary succession and wills (Indian Succession Act, 1925), Muslim (Shia/Sunni) inheritance, hiba, waqf - per the site's "Family law II One Shot".
One-shot revision
The whole subject in one place: read end to end before exams.
Family Law II is the law that decides what happens to family property (marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and guardianship belong to Family Law I). It asks: Who owns the property of a family? Who can sell it? How is it divided when the family separates? When a person dies, who gets what, and…
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Illustration: A Hindu male dies intestate, leaving behind a widow, a son, and a daughter. The property will be divided into three equal parts: one-third each for the widow, the son, and the daughter.
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Topic by topic
Short, focused notes on each topic, newest first.
Key Point: Daughters have equal coparcenary rights under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, from birth, irrespective of the father’s date of death.
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Practise
Every answer comes with an explanation and the legal provision behind it.
