| COURT: | Supreme Court |
| CORAM: | A.K. Sikri J., Ashok Bhushan J |
| SECTION(S): | Hindu Succession Act 1956 |
| GENRE: | Other Laws |
| CATCH WORDS: | Hindu Law, Hindu Succession Act 1956, HUF, Married Daughters |
| COUNSEL: | - |
| DATE: | February 1, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | March 14, 2018 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | - |
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| Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) Law: The very factum of birth in a coparcenary creates the coparcenary. Therefore the sons and daughters of a coparcener become coparceners by virtue of birth. The amendment to s. 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 in 2005 statutorily recognizes the rights of coparceners of daughters as well since birth. Consequently, married daughters can be said to be the coparceners in the HUF and are entitled to the ancestral property even if they were born prior to the amendment to the Hindu Succession Act | |
Section 6, as amended, stipulates that on and from the commencement of the amended Act, 2005, the daughter of a coparcener shall by birth become a coparcener in her own right in the same manner as the son. It is apparent that the status conferred upon sons under the old section and the old Hindu Law was to treat them as coparceners since birth. The amended provision now statutorily recognizes the rights of coparceners of daughters as well since birth. The section uses the words in the same manner as the son. It should therefore be apparent that both the sons and the daughters of a coparcener have been conferred the right of becoming coparceners by birth. It is the very factum of birth in a coparcenary that creates the coparcenary, therefore the sons and daughters of a coparcener become coparceners by virtue of birth
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