IntroductionIn a recent ruling, the Kerala High Court struck down Sections 3 and 4 of the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System ...

Justice Easwaran S., in the order on 7 July, ruled that Sections 3 and 4 of the Kerala Joint Family System (Abolition) Act clashed with Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as amended in 2005.

Recently, in a landmark decision given by the Supreme Court on 11 August 2020, Vineeta Sharma vs Rakesh Sharma (2020), the court clarified that daughters are entitled to ancestral property from ...