Property Rights Of Women After Husband Death: According to Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, a woman has no right even in her in-laws’ ancestral property as long as her husband or her in-laws are alive.
After marriage, the woman leaves her parents, siblings and family and lives in her in-laws’ house. This is the reason that socially and legally, women are given some rights after marriage. But today in this article we will try to know whether just by getting married a woman becomes equally entitled to a man’s property?
These rules are very important
According to Indian law, the wife has no right on her self-acquired property while the husband is alive. Only after the death of the husband, his wife will have the right in the property, but if the husband has written a will before his death, then the rights to the property will be decided on the basis of that. That is, if the wife’s name is not there in the will, then she will not get any right in that property.
Whereas, according to the rules, in case of divorce or separation from the husband, the woman has the right to receive only alimony from her husband. That is, it is clear that upon separation, she cannot claim rights from her husband’s property.
Chhattisgarh High Court, while hearing a case regarding the maintenance of a Hindu widow, had given a very important decision. While giving the verdict in this, the court had said that if the Hindu widow is not able to survive from her income or property. In such a situation, she can claim maintenance from her father-in-law.
