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Which section of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 protects the inheritance right of a child who was in…

Section 20 gives a child who was in the womb at death and is later born alive the same inheritance rights as if born before the death. The inheritance is deemed to vest from…

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Which section of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 protects the inheritance right of a child who was in the womb when the intestate died and was later born alive?

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Section 20 gives a child who was in the womb at death and is later born alive the same inheritance rights as if born before the death.

The inheritance is deemed to vest from the intestate's death.

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Option A

Section 19 addresses the mode of succession when heirs take together.

Option B

Section 20 protects the child later born alive and deems vesting to occur from the intestate's death.

Option C

Section 21 supplies a presumption where the order of deaths is uncertain.

Option D

Section 22 gives specified heirs a preferential right to acquire an interest another such heir proposes to transfer.

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