DAUGHTER'S RIGHT TO INHERIT PROPERTY?

My friend’s mother passed away recently. Soon after her brother asked her to sign a couple of documents relinquishing her share completely.

- NAMRATA KOHLI

I asked her why she submitted passively into this act of foregoing her share, when even the law allows daughters the right to inherit their parents’ property. All she said was “for the sake of family harmony… I want to maintain my relationship with whoever is left of my family now, at any cost.” All this even when she herself (and husband) had invested into a premium apartment and often felt cash strapped whenever the hefty annual instalment had to be paid to the builder. But she did what had to be done - making a few appearances in courts and registration authorities and signing a series of papers – all for “maintaining family bonds.”