Supreme Court examines if illegitimate child has right over ancestral property

As some of the contesting counsel veered towards a consensus that under Section 16(3) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 a child born to a void or voidable marriage would be entitled to an equal share with children born to the legitimate wife/husband from the parent’s property, some others propped a doubt as to whether that property would include the self-acquired property of the parent or the inherited ancestral property.

from Personal Finance News-Wealth-Economic Times https://ift.tt/jKtAZUh