From your name it is guessed that you and they are HIndu.
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>>> In case of Hindu Male: The estate shall devolve as per Sec;8,9,10,11 of HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956 .
ClassI legal heirs have first right i.e. mother,wife,sons,daughters......
If ClassI legal heirs are not present then ClassII legal heirs shall claim.
ClassII relations:
Class II relations
- Father
- Brother/Sister
- Son’s daughter’s son/daughter,
- Daughter’s son’s son/daughter
- Daughter’s daughter’s son/daughter
- Sibling son/daughter
- Father’s Parents
- Brother’s widow
- Father’s sibling
- Mother’s parents
- Mother’s sibling
Brothers' of father are present as per your post.
>>> In case of Hindu Female: ClassI and ClassII is not aplicable. The estate shall devolve as per Sec;15,16 of HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956 .
Since the funds are self earned, and notacquired from husband,parents i.e;
(1) The property of a female Hindu dying intestate shall devolve according to the rules set out in section 16 :
(a) firstly, upon the sons and daughters (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) and the husband;
(b) secondly, upon the heirs of the husband;
(c) thirdly, upon the mother and father;
(d) fourthly, upon the heirs of the father; and
(e) lastly, upon the heirs of the mother
and.................those in one entry shall be preferred to those in any succeeding entry and those including in the same entry shall take simultaneously.
Brothers' of father are present as per your post.