New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that the daughters will have equal right over the parental property in accordance with the 2005 amendment in the Hindu Succession Act.
The apex court ruled that the daughters will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005.
“Daughters will have the right over parental property even if the coparcener had died prior to the coming into force of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005″, said a three-judge bench of the top court headed by Justice Arun Mishra.
Coparcener is a term used for a person who assumes a legal right in parental property by birth only.