5. How do Indian women benefit from the HSAA
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In India, women’s access and rights of ownership over family property (both moveable and immoveable), in the absence of a will, is governed by succession laws based on religion. Under Hindu law prior to 1937, a woman did not have the right to own any property at all, except what ..
In India, women's access and right of ownership over family property ( both moveable and immovable), in the absence of a Will is governed by succession laws based on religion. under Hindu law prior to 1937, a women did not have the right to own any property at all, expect what she received from her parents at the time of her wedding. the Hindu succession act, 1956 was a breakthrough in terms of giving Hindu women a full and equal share of their husbands' property as the children, yet ,the male bias persisted . An amendment to his act in 2005 took the progressive step of making daughters coparceners at par with sons, such that they receive an equal birthright to share in the nantal family's ancestral property,i.e., Parents' property.
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