Inheritance
M. SREENIVASA RAO
(Querist) 23 June 2023
This query is : Resolved
My mother is the only living daughter to our died grandmother. My mother as one and only legal heir, sold an immovable property(in her mother's name) for her financial needs. One of our brothers is demanding a share in the sale proceeds claiming the sold property as ancestral. Is his claim admissible and valid under the existing laws? We are Hindus and property is situated in Andhra Pradesh.
kavksatyanarayana
(Expert) 23 June 2023
Maternal grandmother's property does not come under the ancestral category of property. However if your grandmother has left behind movable and immovable assets upon her intestate death, your mother is entitled to inherit those properties.
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 24 June 2023
It is not ancestral property.
On inheritance of the property from her mother, your mother becomes an absolute owner of the property as a successor in interest to succeed the estates of her deceased mother.
Your brother or anyone cannot claim any share in the property as a right.
Advocate Bhartesh goyal
(Expert) 24 June 2023
Your mother (only legal heir of her mother) has inherited the property from her mother and became absolute owner. property can not be said ancestral property so your brother has no right to claim any share in property.
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 25 June 2023
Property inherited from the mother, grandmother, uncle or brother are not treated as ancestral property.The property held within a family for four or more generations and has not been divided or sold off. in the male lineage, then it can be considered as ancestral property.
Therefore the property acquired by your mother from her mother is not ancestral property
Dr. J C Vashista
(Expert) 25 June 2023
Very well analysed, opined and advised by learned experts, I fully agree and appreciate their acumen.
