Legal Question in Real Estate Law in India

My parents own a house which is self acquired of which each has an equal share. My Mom died a year ago and since then my father wants to give the entire property to my stepmom. My father wants us ( Me, My brother and his family including his daughter) to vacate the house.

A school is also run on the entire property of which i am the secretary/manager.

so do we have any legal right on the property of my parents subject to the condition if the spouse (my mother) is not alive.


Asked on 9/01/15, 11:27 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Vivek Mapara Vivek N. Mapara

Sir

If the Sale Deed is in the name of both your Father / Mother, then your Mother did had 1/2 Share in the Property, and after her death, his legal heirs i.e. yourself, your brother and your farther ( i presume there are no other heirs of your mother except this) will inherit this 1/2 Share of your mother in the property. So virtually yourself and your brother will have 1/6th Share in the property wheres your father will have 4/6 Share in the property.

I have presume here that your mother has not left here any will, otherwise, her 1/2 share will be succeeded as per the testament.

Now so far, so your father asking you all to vacate the house then legally he do not have that right to do so. Because here, legally, you all (yourself, your brother, and your father) hold the property as Tenants - in - Common. So each one of you have right to enjoy the property. If your father wants you to vacate, then he would be required to file a suit for partition of the property and get his 4/6 share declared and separated from common pool by mets and bounds and then he can bequeath, sell, gift, this 4/6 separate share to any one he likes, and you will be entitled to enjoy your respective 1/6 share in the property.

So simple answer to your question is, YES, you inherit the property of your mother, and that you have right in the property and that your father cannot ask you to vacate the house.

Let him file a suit, if he wants to so do You do not leave the possession.

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Vivek N Mapara

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Answered on 9/02/15, 11:23 am


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