Indian law treats ancestral and self-acquired property very differently, leading to common family disputes over inheritance.

Family conflicts over property division are among the most frequent legal battles in India. When a father has multiple children, a common question arises, must he divide the property equally among all of them, or can he give a larger share, or even the entire property, to just one child? The answer depends on a key distinction: whether the property is ancestral or self-acquired.

In the case of , every child, son or daughter, gets an equal share by birth under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. After the 2005 amendment, daughters enjoy the same rights as sons in ancestral property. This means that if a property has passed through four generations without division, all

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