My Grandfather had two wives, he begot one son with his first wife ( I am the grandson from the first wife) and 4 sons and two daughter from his second wife.
He has a self acquired property of a house built on around 260 sq yards which he built with his own funds.
He died in 1953 and in his will (which was declared void) he gave complete rights to his second wife and sons.
- He reiterated that his second wife can distribute the property as she likes.
- Secondly he said that his first wife son’s is a spendthrift, so he would not be entitled to any share in property.
There were differences between the second wife and her son’s and due to ill treatment of sons she gifted the entire property to her first daughter who took care of her during her old age through a gift deed.
The sons had a long legal battle with the first daughter over the property and managed to get rights on the property through a civil suit stating the house on the property was built through contributions of sons and the Mother (Second wife) has no right to gift the same to their sister.
Now that the will originally written by my Grandfather was declared void and the gift deed of my grandfathers second wife to her daughter was also not proved and the most important point was that the sons were minors at the time of completion of the Suit property.
I am planning to move to court to claim my Father’s share (Grandfathers first wife son) in property . The sons were minors when the Suit Property house was built and could have in no case contributed.
Please let me know my chances of getting the share in the property.
- Would I be getting a half share as there are two wives to my Grandfather and the property would be divided into half due to two wives.
- Secondly as there are 7 legal heirs – One my father, 6 Shares from second wife (4 sons 2 daughters) would I be getting 1/7 th share (are daughters entitled to share in property as they are very poor financial condition currently)
- Thirdly would I be getting 1/5 th share as there are total of 5 sons in the family, one son from first wife and 4 sons from second wife.
Finally I want to know if I can file a partition suit for the property if my Grandfather dies in 1953 and the property is still not partitioned as to date.
Please let me know my chances of getting a share, and is there any time limit for filling a partition suit.
Regards
Ramana Rao B.V