What is the present Ancestral Property Inheritance Law for unmarried daughter in India.?
The property which you call ancestral property can be construed as ancestral if this property was actual owned by your great grand father & it passed on down the line to you & your brother, in other words to be called a Hindu Ancestral property it should be four generation old. Secondly even if it was your grand father’s self owned property after his death if he died intestate i.e. without leaving any ‘Will’ or any other Testamentary document then it was inherited by his wife, sons & daughters etc. In this case presuming your father was the only legal heir of your grandfather at the time of his death, then your father became the owner of the said property, after the death of your father, his wife i.e. your mother, your brother & you all the three became equal share holder in this property. Now lets presume the first option which you stated that this property was an Ancestral property as per the Hindu law, then in such a case your & your brother became Coparcener at the time of your bir
