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In Search Of Women’S Equal Right To Property In India - Recent Judicial Developments, Archana Mishra
In Search Of Women’S Equal Right To Property In India - Recent Judicial Developments, Archana Mishra
Archana Mishra
Women’s economic status influenced by her ownership and control over immovable property is hardly reflected in Indian society even after India having achieved independence more than half a century before. Effective rights to women in property cannot spring from closed and restrictive mindset of the legislature. The recent decisions of Supreme Court of India and various High Courts expanding the scope of much denied property rights to women in India encapsulate the essence and spirit of the Constitution. Some of the recent striking developments in the field of allowing property rights to women e.g., right of tribal women in property, …
Rights In Separate Property For Hindu Female – Autonomy, Relationality And The Law, Archana Mishra Ms.
Rights In Separate Property For Hindu Female – Autonomy, Relationality And The Law, Archana Mishra Ms.
Archana Mishra
In India, among Hindus the customary laws sanctioned the male oriented law with respect to land and property and denied female their rights in land property. Access to economic rights, inheritance and property ownership to women has significant impact on her social and economic well-being. Hindu Succession Act, 1956 marks a new era in the Indian history of social legislation by removing, to an extent, the pre-existing discrimination in inheritance on grounds of gender and giving women access to economic rights. But the Act fails to live up to the promise of a legal system which aspires to ensure equality …
Adopted And Illegitimate Child Under Indian Christian Law: Revisiting Inheritance Rights, Archana Mishra
Adopted And Illegitimate Child Under Indian Christian Law: Revisiting Inheritance Rights, Archana Mishra
Archana Mishra
Christian law of inheritance in India regulated by Indian Succession Act, 1925 steered by rule of kinship recognizes only consanguinity as a determining factor for title to succession and does not protect the rights of adopted and illegitimate child to inherit property. Christian law though grants equal inheritance rights to sons and daughters and protects right to property of surviving spouse but allows only children born from valid marriage to inherit. Denial of inheritance rights to adopted and illegitimate children causes social and economic deprivations. Inheritance practices among Christians disallowing such rights to adopted or illegitimate children of the deceased …