Under Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a child born out of a void marriage:

Under Section 16(1) and Section 16(3) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a child born of a void marriage is statutorily conferred legitimacy and is entitled to succeed to the property of the parents, though not the property of any other person. In Revanasiddappa v. Mallikarjun (2023), a three-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court settled the law that upon the death of a parent, the property of the parent includes the share in Hindu Mitakshara coparcenary property that would have been allotted to the parent upon a notional partition under Section 6(3) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. Such a child therefore has a statutory right—not dependent on judicial discretion—to a share in the father's interest in coparcenary property as well as self-acquired property.