Can Women Claim Property Rights Years After Marriage? Law Explained

According to the law, there is no time limit for a daughter to claim her share in ancestral property. Since a woman has a right to that property from birth, she can claim her share at any time she wishes, whether immediately after marriage or in old age.

Before the 2005 amendment to the Hindu Succession Act, only sons had birth rights to ancestral property, while women only had rights to maintenance or marriage expenses. The 2005 amendment enabled daughters to have equal succession (coparcenary) rights in ancestral property just like sons.

If a father purchases a self-acquired property through his own hard work and dies intestate without writing any will, the daughter is entitled to receive an equal share in that property.