Guides on wills, succession, nominees, legal heirs and inheritance disputes for Indian families.
A Muslim will (wasiyat) in India is governed by the personal law of the testator, saved by Section 2 of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 and excluded from the bulk of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 by Section 58 of that Act. Two doct...
The intestate succession of a Hindu is governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, read with the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005. The Act overrides the pre-1956 customary Hindu law to the extent of inconsistency (Section 4). Two distinct regimes oper...
Every partition suit in a Hindu family turns on a single classification question — is the property in dispute ancestral or self-acquired? The answer decides whether the sons (and after 2005, the daughters) take a share by birth or whether the holder of the ...
This page collects Everyday Law guides on Inheritance. It is meant for readers who want the legal position, documents and next steps in plain language.
