Under Mitakshara law, a father, as karta, can make a gift of a reasonable portion of joint family…

Under Mitakshara law a karta cannot ordinarily gift joint family immovable property. In Guramma Bhratar Chanbasappa Deshmukh v Mallappa Chanbasappa (1964), however, the Supreme Court held that a father may make a gift of a reasonable portion of it to a "Daughter", in discharge of his moral obligation to provide for her, at or even after her marriage. No such power exists to gift joint family immovable property to a son, who is himself a coparcener, or to the wife. Gifts out of affection to them are limited to a reasonable part of movable property.