duel citizenship person's intestate succession

binukokkad (Querist) 11 December 2010 This query is : Resolved
a person has duel citizenship with USA and India died at USA as intestate, how his assets will share or who are his legal heirs

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R.Ramachandran (Expert) 11 December 2010
For the properties in India, a person's legal heirs will remain legal heirs whatever may be his nationality. Having dual citizenship will not bring any change in the legal heirs.
If the deceased is a male, then to start with his first class heirs are his wife, son(s), daughter(s) etc.