How much right do daughters have on father’s property, big decision came from Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has said in its important decision that if a Hindu man dies without a will, then his daughters will be entitled to get the father’s own acquired property and other property. The Supreme Court said that the daughter will have more priority than other members. The decision of the Madras High Court was challenged in the Supreme Court.

The matter related to the right of property to Hindu women and widows under the Hindu Succession Act was before the Supreme Court. A bench of Justice S Abdul Nazeer and Justice Krishna Murari of the Supreme Court said that if a person dies without a will, then after his death the property may be acquired by himself or after the division of the ancestral property, his division is his. between the legal heirs.

The bench also held that the daughter of such male Hindu would be entitled to inherit the property in preference to her other relatives (such as sons/daughters of brothers of deceased father). The daughter had approached the court for claim in the father’s own acquired property. The bench was looking into the legal issue relating to the right of the daughter to take over her father’s self-acquired property in the absence of any other legal heir.