After the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, the daughter of a coparcener in a Joint Hindu family…

Section 6(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as substituted in 2005, provides that the daughter of a coparcener in a Mitakshara joint family "shall become a coparcener by birth in her own right in the same manner as the son", with the same rights and liabilities.

She therefore has rights in the coparcenary property, but she cannot dispose of the entire coparcenary property to the exclusion of the other coparceners.

Current law: Vineeta Sharma in 2020 clarified that the father need not have been alive on 9 September 2005 for the daughter's statutory right. The ruling preserves the statutory protection for dispositions, alienations and qualifying partitions before 20 December 2004; it does not invalidate every prior completed arrangement.