The Uniform Civil Code seeks “one nation, one law” to govern citizens’ personal lives, but religious minorities fear hidden costs. In February, the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand passed a ...

The Chhattisgarh high court has ruled that a daughter cannot claim a share in her deceased father’s property if he passed away before the enforcement of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. The court said ...

When it comes to dividing assets, the law doesn’t always work the way families expect. In many households, parents assume that all their children—sons and daughters—will automatically inherit equally.

Earlier this month, the Chhattisgarh High Court determined that daughters cannot inherit their deceased father's property if he passed away prior to 1956, the year the Hindu Succession Act was enacted ...

The Delhi High Court's recent judgment in Kritika Jain v. Rakesh Jain (2025:DHC:7991) settles decades of legal ambiguity and reshapes property succession planning for millions of Indian families. This ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a daughter cannot claim a share in her father’s property if he passed away before 1956, the year the Hindu Succession Act came into force. Emphasising that ...

The top court, in its judgement, also expressed strong displeasure over the poor quality of English translation of a trial court judgement, stressing that translations must faithfully capture the ...

In a major setback for actor Saif Ali Khan, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed his long-standing petition challenging the government’s classification of his family’s ancestral properties in ...