#daughter inheritance

Madras High Court rules that daughters are entitled to equal coparcenary shares in ancestral property under the 2005 Amendment, even in partition suits pending before the amendment. However, testamentary dispositions made before 20.12.2004 remain valid, overriding statutory changes. The final decree must reflect these legal nuances.

Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench rules that daughters are coparceners by birth under the amended Hindu Succession Act, 2005, regardless of whether their father died before the amendment's effective date. The judgment overturns the prior 'notional partition' approach, ensuring gender-equal inheritance rights in ancestral property for all daughters, irrespective of the father's date of death.

Karnataka High Court rules that a daughter's coparcenary rights under the 2005 amendment to the Hindu Succession Act are birthrights, overriding any testamentary disposition by the father, even if the will was executed before the amendment. This decision reinforces that ancestral property rights of daughters cannot be extinguished by prior wills, ensuring equal inheritance rights.