Under Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, a daughter belonging to the Mitakshara school has:

Under Section 6(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as substituted by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, the daughter of a coparcener in a joint Hindu family governed by the Mitakshara law becomes a coparcener by birth in her own right in the same manner as a son, and has the same full rights and liabilities in the coparcenary property as she would have had if she had been a son.