Property Rights: Do daughters have a right in father’s property? The answer is yes and no. Are you also confused about this issue? Somewhere people say that the daughter has less rights than the son.
Somewhere it is said that the daughter has no rights. Somewhere it is said that the daughter has the right to equality. Different types of misconceptions are spread in the society. In such a situation, the question arises that after all, how much right does the daughter have in the father’s property? For your information, let us tell you that like a son, daughters also have the right on the father’s property.
In our country, very little is known about the rules related to the rights of daughters on father’s property. Many women assume that they have nothing to do with this property.
What does the Hindu Succession Law say?
This Act was enacted in 1956 for the provisions of claim and rights on property. According to this, the daughter has as much right on the father’s property as the son. This succession law was changed in 2005, consolidating the rights of daughters. In which any doubt about the rights of the daughter on the property of the father was removed.
When daughter cannot claim on father’s property
The daughter’s side becomes weak in terms of property created by her earnings. If the father has bought the land with his own money. If he has built or bought a house, then he can give this property to whomever he wants. It is the legal right of the father to give his earned property to anyone of his own free will. It means to say that if the father refuses to give the daughter a share in his own property, then the daughter cannot do anything.
Married daughter’s right on father’s property
After the amendment of 2005, the daughter has been considered as the heir i.e. equal heir. Now even after the daughter’s marriage, the father has the right to inherit the property. No changes have been made to it. That is, even after marriage, the daughter has the right over the father’s property.
