The Hon’ble Supreme Court on 20th January 2022 in a landmark Judgment in Civil Appeal No. 6659 of 2011 (Gounder (dead) Lrs -versus- Ponnusamy & Others conferred daughters with equal right to father’s property even prior to codification of Hindu personal laws and enactment of Hindu Succession Act ,1956 and held that the laws of inheritance would apply to partition even if the father had died intestate before 1956.
The Hon'ble Supreme Court on 20th January 2022 in a landmark Judgment in Civil Appeal No. 6659 of 2011 (Arunachala Gounder (dead) Lrs -versus- Ponnusamy & Others conferred daughters with…