A Hindu woman dies intestate in Delhi without children or descendants of a predeceased child. Consider…
Property inherited from a parent by a female dying without children or descendants of predeceased children devolves on the father's heirs under section 15(2)(a). Section 16…
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A Hindu woman dies intestate in Delhi without children or descendants of a predeceased child. Consider ONLY a property share she inherited from her deceased father. Her survivors are her husband, mother (the father's widow), one brother and one sister, with no other heirs of the father. Who inherits that share under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer C
Property inherited from a parent by a female dying without children or descendants of predeceased children devolves on the father's heirs under section 15(2)(a).
Section 16 rule 3 treats the father as dying immediately after her; his widow, son and daughter then share this specified property equally.
Option feedback
Option A
The husband is excluded from this inherited property by section 15(2)(a), despite his priority for ordinary self-acquired property.
Option B
The husband does not share in the property governed by this source-based exception.
Option C
The mother is the father's widow, and the sister and brother his children; those three Class I heirs share equally.
Option D
Adding the husband disregards the section 15(2)(a) exception.
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