Family Settlement Archives

‘Section 15(1) of Hindu Succession Act an anomaly in legislation that requires rectification’; Delhi HC denies widowed daughter-in-law a share in mother-in-law’s property

The Delhi High Court said that this case is demonstrative of how S. 15(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 works against a woman.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Whether registration of family settlement not “affecting” immovable property compulsory? Supreme Court decides admissibility of such settlement as evidence

“If the Khararunama by itself, does not ‘affect’ immovable property… there would be no breach of Section 49(1)(c), as it is not being used as evidence of a transaction effecting such property.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Any judicial system which does not provide finality to disputes, can never earn the trust, confidence and goodwill of the society: HC highlights ‘Consent Decree’ and ‘Lawful Compromise’

Litigants think that they can ‘hop on and hop off the case’ at any stage without any consequence using the slogan ‘pure justice’.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Consent decree recognising pre-existing rights created by oral family settlement does not require registration under section 17 of Registration Act, 1908: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The bench of Ashok Bhushan* and R. Subhash Reddy, JJ has held that consent decree recognising pre-existing rights created by

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Married woman’s heirs on paternal side are not strangers; she can enter in family settlement with such heirs: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The bench of Ashok Bhushan* and R. Subhash Reddy, JJ has held that when heirs of father of a female

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC | Wilful disobedience or Wilful breach: Are these necessary requisites for bringing in action for ‘Civil Contempt’? Read on

Supreme Court: B.R. Gavai, J., while addressing a contempt petition expressed that: “…contempt proceeding is not like an execution proceeding under the