In Brief
Two daughters sought partition of ancestral property, including agricultural land and a building, claiming rights under the 1989 Tamil Nadu amendment to the Hindu Succession Act. The trial court and High Court dismissed their claims. The Supreme Court held that daughters who were married before March 1989 cannot claim coparcenary partition rights in ancestral property, as the amendment applies only to unmarried daughters of living coparceners. However, the daughters are entitled to inherit their proportionate share of their father's separate property and their mother's succession share through succession laws, not as coparceners, yielding each daughter a 1/6 share overall.",
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