US-based woman files case against parents for property share; Karnataka HC rejects it

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A woman living in the United States sued her parents in Karnataka over her claim to an equal share of family properties. The Karnataka High Court rejected the case, which turned on whether property inherited by her father from her grandfather qualified as ancestral property under the Hindu Succession Act.

The case involves a dispute over whether properties that had come to the woman’s father from her grandfather retained the character of ancestral property, giving her a right to seek partition under the Hindu Succession Act. The woman, based in the US, has been living abroad since her marriage in 1979. She filed a suit seeking partition of family properties and an equal share in them after her father sold one property.