Madras High Court

A Remarried Widow, a Murderer, and a Coparcener's Share: Madras High Court Separates Section 24 from Section 25 of the Hindu Succession Act

A three-decade-old partition dispute forced the Madras High Court to decide whether a coparcener's share reverts to his relatives when his widow remarries, or passes instead to his daughter. The answer turns on a distinction between two very different kinds of disqualification buried in the Hindu Succession Act.