rights of a women

the decesed person parents can file a suit for partition of their share in the properties of their deceased son.

being a class one legal heir of the deceased mother can file suit against her daughter-in law claiming her share in the benefits of the deceased son.

The problem is their age when no help is forthcoming. Civil cases will linger on and the old couple may not see the fruit of their labour. They could have imagined what the daughter-in-law would do to them. Government would have seen to it that they too were provided for out of the benefits but obviously they did not claim it then. The death of the son is too shocking to think of these things but the ground reality is totally different.

Law has provision for everything/everyone, but delay and paraphenallia attached is killing it. In my area one partition suit of 1957 is still undecided.

Mr. Dinesh, Your thought is o.k. There is a responsibility of educated persons also. The educated persons have to enlighten the uneducated people. As far as justice is concern every professional in what so ever field must inform to the lawyers on behalf of illeterate. The lawyers look after the justice to the public.That is why law profession. Indeed.

 There is a song alluded to late Martin Luther King which reads WE SHALL OVER COME.

I don't know about other countries but in India, I can safely say that WE SHALL NOT REFORM.

Look around and we shall find that there is not a single family that has not been ruined because of the socalled blind love for children where the property owner (say father) has not, during his life time, settled, gifted, sold, transferred the property to his children and left them to fight bitterly after his death for a share and generations to come suffer. We all know the consequences of the blinded love of a blind king (Mahabharat) and still donot learn anything. See what happened when Dhirubhani Ambani died. A bitter fued emerged that never ends.

In India, the will was unknown before English conquest

Although most people are aware that they need a will, as many as 66% of Americans, according to Consumer Reports, don't have one. Among the notables who died either without a valid will or with no will at all are Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Howard Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr.,Rocky Marciano, Steve McNair, Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Lenny Bruce, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Cass Elliot, Sonny Bono, Tiny Tim,Karl Marx and Pablo Picasso.

The longest known legal will is that of Englishwoman Fredericka Stilwell-Cook. Probated in 1925, it was 1,066 pages, and had to be bound in 4 volumes; her estate was worth $100,000. The shortest known legal wills are that of Bimla Rishi of Delhi, India, and Karl Tausch of Hesse, Germany; each consisted solely of three words.

MY HUMBLE SUGGESTION:

Let all of us settle our property and don't wait for WILL which will again embroil the heirs in litigation till eternity.

It is in our blood or we have vowed not to reform. Partition is one of the worst civil suit, I ever have come across.  

There is no cure for senility.