Daughters claiming fathers property.

Dear Murlidharan,

Yes, a daughter is very much entitled to share in fathers property. The following provision will clarify your query. The same is amendment which took place in THE HINDU SUCCESSION (TAMIL NADU AMENDMENT) ACT, 1989

29A.- Notwithstanding anything contained in Section  6of this Act.

(i) in  a  Joint Hindu family governed by Mitakshara Law, the daughter of a coparcener shall by birth become a coparcener in her own right in the same manner as the son and have the  same  rights  in the  coparcenary  property as she would have had if she had been a son, inclusive of the right to claim by survivorship; and shall be  subject  to the same liabilities and disabilities in respect thereto as the son;

ii) at  a partition in such a joint Hindu Family the coparcenary property shall be so divided  as  to allot  to  a daughter  the  same  share  as  is allotable to a son.

Provided   that the share   which a pre-deceased  son  or  a  pre-deceased  daughter would have got at the partition if he or she had been alive at the time of the partition shall be allotted  to  the  surviving   child of such predeceased   son or of such  pre-deceased daughter;

Provided further that the share  allotable to  the pre-deceased child of a pre-deceased son or of a pre-deceased daughter, if such child had been alive at the time of the  partition,  shall be  allotted  to  the child of such pre-deceased child  of  the  pre-deceased  son  or   of   the pre-deceased daughter as the case may be;

(iii) any  property  to  which  a female Hindu becomes entitled by virtue of the provisions  of  clause (i)shall  be held by her with the incidents of coparcenary ownership  and  shall  be  regarded, notwithstanding  anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, as property capable of being disposed of by her  by will or other testamentary disposition;

(iv) nothing   in  this  chapter  shall  apply  to a daughter  married  before  the commencement  of Hindu  Succession  (Tamil  Nadu  Amendment) Act, 1986.

 (v) Nothing  in  clause  (ii)  shall  supply  to a Partition  which  had  been  effected before the date of    commencement of the Hindu Succession(Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1989.

29-B. Interest to devolve by survivorship on death

When   a   female  Hindu  dies  after  the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1989 having at the time  of  her death,  an  interest in a Mitakshara coparcenary property by virtue of the provisions of  Section 29-A, her interest in the property shall devolve by  survivorship  upon  the surviving members of the coparcenary and not in accordance with  this Act.

Provided that if the deceased had left any child  or  child  of  a  pre-deceased child, the interest  of  the  deceased  in  the  Mitakshara coparcenary    property    shall    devolve   by testamentary or  intestate  succession,  as  the case   may   be,  under  this  Act  and  not  by

survivorship.

Explanation-I.- For the purposes of this section, the interest of a female Hindu Mitakshara coparcener shall be deemed to be the share in the  property that  would  have  been  allotted  to  her  if a partition  of  the  property  had  taken   place immediately  before  her  death, irrespective of whether she was entitled to claim  partition  or not.

Explanation II: Nothing contained in the  proviso  to this section shall be construed  as  enabling  a person  who,  before  the death of deceased, had separated   himself   or   herself   from    the coparcenary,  or any of his or her heir to claim on intestacy a share in the interest referred to therein.