SC EXTENDS WOMEN'S RIGHT TO PARENTS PROPERTY PRIOR TO 1956.

QUESTION OF INHERITANCE :-- If a property of a male Hindu dying intestate is a self acquired property or obtained in partition of a coparcenary or a family property the same would devolve by inheritance and not by survivorship, and a daughter of such a male Hindu would be entitled to inherit such property in preference to other collaterals. The rights of women in the family to maintenance were in every case very substantial rights and on the whole, under the provision made by 1956 Act if a female Hindu dies intestate without leaving any issue, then the property inherited by her from her father or mother would go to the heirs of her father where as the property inherited from her husband or father in law would go to the heirs of the husband. In case a female Hindu dies leaving behind her husband or any issue, then Section 15(1)(a) comes into operation and the properties left behind, including the properties which she inherited from the parents would devolve simultaneously upon her husband and issues .