Most people in India believe that after marriage, for a woman, her in-laws are everything. After marriage, the woman leaves her parents, siblings and family and lives in her in-laws' house. This is the reason that socially and legally, women are given some rights after marriage. But today in this article we will try to know whether just by getting married a woman becomes equally entitled to a man's property?
what does the law say
The Indian Succession Act, Hindu Succession Act and Muslim Personal Law play an important role in deciding the heir to any property. On this basis, it is decided who has how much right in the property. According to these laws, just by getting married, a woman does not get the right on the property of her husband or in-laws, but it also depends on many circumstances.
These rules are very important
According to Indian law, the wife has no right on her self-acquired property while the husband is alive. Only after the death of the husband, his wife will have the right in the property, but if the husband has written a will before his death, then the rights to the property will be decided on the basis of that. That is, if the wife's name is not there in the will, then she will not get any right in that property. Whereas, according to the rules, in case of divorce or separation from the husband, the woman has the right to receive only alimony from her husband. That is, it is clear that upon separation, she cannot claim rights from her husband's property.
Rights in in-laws' property
According to Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, a woman has no right even in her in-laws' ancestral property as long as her husband or her in-laws are alive. However, upon the death of her husband, she has rights in her in-laws' property. She can inherit her husband's share in the ancestral property. In the year 1978, the Supreme Court had also given a historic decision related to shared property in the case of Gurupad Khandappa Magdam vs. Heerabai Khandappa Magdam.
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