Bombay High Court Allows Appeal in Adoption and Hindu Women's Property Rights Case — Widow's Adoption in 1953 Does Not Extinguish Her Limited Estate Under Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937. The court held that the widow's adoption of a son does not divest her of the limited estate she inherited from her husband under the 1937 Act, and the adopted son does not acquire any right to the property during her lifetime.
19 Oct 2018The case involves a second appeal before the Bombay High Court concerning the effect of adoption by a widow in 1953 on her rights under the Hindu Wome...
