In which situation a daughter cannot claim her father’s property? Few people will know this legal information

Today’s India is a new India. The country has changed. Today women are standing shoulder to shoulder with men. However, this was not the case earlier. Now the law of India sees women and men as equals. This is the reason that for the last 20 years, the daughters of the country are also equal partners in the father’s property like sons. After the amendment in the Hindu Succession Act, the daughter has the right not only in self-acquired assets but also in ancestral property.

In 2005, the Government of India, keeping in view the changed socio-economic structure of the society, amended the Hindu Succession Act and made daughters equal heirs to the father’s property like their brothers. In simple words, the government rule made after the law was passed says that daughters have as much right on the father’s property as sons. Secondly, whether the daughter is married or unmarried, she will have equal rights as her brother in the father’s property.

Before the amendment in 2005, married daughters had limited or almost no rights in the inherited property. The government had also eliminated that difference in 2005.

When a daughter cannot claim her father’s property

Under the new rules and regulations, a father can refuse to give property to his daughter in a will. If the father had made a will before his death, then the matter is different. The father has the right to divide the property according to his wish in the will. If it is clearly written in the will that after the death of a certain person (father), only the sons will have the right to his property, then the daughters cannot challenge it. However, the thing to keep in mind is that this rule will not apply to ancestral property i.e. property received through a will. After the amendment in the law in 2005, sons and daughters have equal rights in the property received through a will.