Daughters’ Property Rights: Equality Is the Rule, Not an Automatic Outcome

Under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, daughters are recognised as coparceners by birth with rights equal to sons in ancestral property, irrespective of marital status, thereby entitling them to demand partition and claim an equal share; however, such equality is not mechanically automatic in all cases, since entitlement varies based on whether the property is ancestral or self-acquired, whether succession is testamentary or intestate, and whether statutory conditions or prior partitions intervene, with the law maintaining parity in principle while conditioning actual distribution on the governing legal framework of succession applicable to the property in question.