What was the condition of women in Hindu family till a few years back?
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In medieval period it was so brutal
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ANSWER: Since the reader's grandfather died in 1925 prior to the date on which Hindu Succession Act, 1956, came into force, such property will have to be treated as joint family property since it is inherited property. It should, therefore, make no difference whether the property was self-earned or inherited by the grandfather or whether the brothers got them through an amicable family partition or by a court decree. The property devolving on the father would therefore be treated as the joint family property consisting of the father as the karta, such joint family would include the reader, his mother and his five sisters.
One has to consider the rights of the sisters as on November 24, 1989, the date of death of the father. It is not correct to assume that the daughters had no right at all in the joint family property before the Amendment Act, 2005. They had a right in the father's share along with mother and brothers after the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. The only difference is that the Amendment Act gave them a larger right equal to that of the brother as a coparcener and not merely as a successor to the share of the father to be shared with the brothers and the mother as under the Hindu Succession Act, prior to amendment. It also requires notice that the mother's share out of the father's share in the joint family property will devolve on sons and daughters equally on her death on August 28, 1995, as it is her individual property.
But the right of the daughters prior to the Amendment Act demarcates their interest in the joint family property. Such right can be enforced on their demand for partition or on the occasion of partition. Since it appears that it has not been done, their right to this extent available on the pre-amendment law would remain with them.
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