US-based woman files case against parents for property share; Karnataka HC rejects it

Your father has several properties in his and decides to sell one of them. Do you as a daughter have a claim on the property? In one such case, a daughter who sought a share in properties held by her father has lost her legal battle after the Karnataka High Court held that she failed to prove that the properties were ancestral or coparcenary properties in which she had acquired a right by birth.The case involved a dispute over whether properties that had come to the woman’s father from her grandfather retained the character of ancestral property, giving her a right to seek partition under the Hindu Succession Act.What the case is aboutThe woman, based in the US, has been living abroad since her marriage in 1979. She filed a suit seeking partition of family properties and an equal share in them after her father sold one property.