Mere paying municipal house tax gives right on the property
Anguluri Annappa
(Querist) 14 March 2022
This query is : Resolved
My father paid house taxes on the house which was purchased by my grandfather in 1960.
My grandfather died intestate in 1960 leaving behind 3 sons and 5 daughters. My father also
died in 2001. Whether this house could be partitioned among my brothers and my deceased
sister's two daughters.
Please advice.
Annappa
P. Venu
(Expert) 15 March 2022
The query is repeated.
Dr J C Vashista
(Expert) 16 March 2022
No
Payment of property tax do not confer title.
Advocate Bhartesh goyal
(Expert) 16 March 2022
Yes, payments of house tax and municipal tax does not confer title of property.
kavksatyanarayana
(Expert) 17 March 2022
All your grandfather's legal heirs have equal rights over the property even though your father paid the taxes.
Anguluri Annappa
(Querist) 18 March 2022
Thank you very much for your responses, but my deceased sister's daughters applied to
the court for partition of the property, and the court issued notices to our three brothers. The court notice says that if we don't attend the proceedings, the court will decide the case. Is this possible in the present case?
Thanking you once again.
Annappa
P. Venu
(Expert) 19 March 2022
That, exactly, is what the procedure enjoins upon the Court to do.
Dr J C Vashista
(Expert) 19 March 2022
I fully agree with senior expert Mr. P Venu, the court shall proceed only after hearing both the parties to lis.
Anguluri Annappa
(Querist) 24 March 2022
Thank you all sirs for your responses. In the cited case the court issued notices to only
one legal heir's ( my father ) children out of eight heirs of my grandfather to go for partition
just on the basis of a house tax receipt in the name of my father only. When I have no interest in the property why should I go around the court. Please clear my doubt.
Annappa
