• Mother inherited parental property gifted to daughter

Mother has 1 son and 1 daughter, who lived in Guwahati. Father died long back.Mother died in 2015.The only son never took care of his mother. Only daughter got married in 1996 & mother used to stay alone in her 1st Floor. Ground floor is rented to tenants. During her old age, Since she wasnt taken care by her son and daughter-in-law & was unable to cook food and live on her own. 
One day she fell down in the terrace and hurt her head.The daughter took her mother to her husbands house and started to live there.Sometimes the mother used to go and live in her own house. Mother made a will and gifted her entire property of 3 storied building to her daughter. The mother with an advocates advice made a GIFT DEED to gift the entire property in her daughters name.
The father during his service life bought a land in Guwahati, which the husband and wife i.e., mother and father decided to give the landed property bought by father to their only son. The mother constructed temporary houses and gave it for rent. Initially the mother used to collect rent but later on,the son didnt allow his mother to take rent.
The son filed a Title Suit in later part of 2013 after mother's GIFT DEED( made earlier to Title Suit).
The mother died of Cancer in May'2015 and the son didnt attend hospital to collect her body and pay bills of the hospital. The daughter paid all bills of the hospital. The Transfer of Land in daughters name was made by Deputy Commissioner, Guwahati in mother and daughters presence.
In july'2017, the judgement given by lower court in Guwahati was in Son's favour. They strongly showed HIBA,possession and showed Sub-Meter Bill(Electricity) in his name. Also they mentioned that the daughter never goes to stay in 1st Floor of the building and the ground floor is lying vacant from years. Since the daughter is a house wife without know how of Civil Laws Pros and Cons, her professional advocate hired for the case didnt show any documents related to possession of 1st Floor and Ground Floor. The Ground Floor has been rented since about 10-15 years and the tenants are using that for Godown purpose, which the hired advocate could have shown documents in the form of rented receipts etc but why the advocate didnt show , the reasons are unkown till today. The hired advocate didnt show the holding of each floors & the land tax by the daughter.The nearby neighbours also could have been call ed for witness and the witness of the GIFT DEED was also not called for witness at the court.
Now the daughter has filed an APPEAL to the Judgement in 10th August'2017 in the senior division court and also got a stay order to the DECREE.
The daughter is paying Land Tax and Floor wise Building Tax to related offices and is upto date.
I pray to kindly GUIDE.
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1.Since a decree is passed the only way to resolve the dispute is through further appeal on which you have rightly done.

2.Since stay order is passed there is no immediate concern.

3.Now apply for appointment of a Receiver who will collect the rent and deposit in court during the pendency of appeal.

4.if there was any laches in the pleading filed beofre the trial court you can seek amendment or seek to furnish additional evidence during appealstage.So talk to your present lawyer on this account.

5.Try to retain physical possession of the proeprty.

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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You have an excellent case and that is the reason why the Senior Divisional Court granted you a stay on the judgement passed by the lower court.

It is a very crystal clear case, wherein not only you have a clear title, but you also have been maintaining your constructive possession over this property. All the relevant facts and evidences which your lawyer in the lower court failed to submit in the court, must be submitted by your present present lawyer before the senior division court.

Having said that, I'll advise you to sell of this property at this juncture only if there is no restrain imposed by the Court from creating third party rights. That is because this case might even take a decade before it is concluded.

Vibhanshu Srivastava
Advocate, Lucknow
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it is necessary to peruse order passed by trial court to advice

2) order is passed by court depending upon evidence led by parties

3) if landed property had been gifted to son by father and mother through gift deed then mother could not have subsequently executed gift deed in favour of daughter

4) mother should have filed suit to set aside earlier gift deed made in favour of son . only if it was set aside could gift deed have been executed in favour of daughter

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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It is evident from the fact of your case that your mother had absolute right on the property if you prove your case that will was executed by your mother to her free consent and will is genuine then you have right to get that property. It is immaterial that you have not been stayed in first floor of the building because being in physical possession is not necessary to prove ownership.

Shivendra Pratap Singh
Advocate, Lucknow
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78 Consultations

 if your advocate did not produced evidence to prove your case then you can approach the District Judge for taking appropriate action against that advocate.You should mention in the appeal memo that some relevant evidence had not been produced by advocate in the trial court. Therefore the appellate court may admit those documents under order 11 of the code of civil procedure. The appellate court will admit all those documents and reverse the order of trial court.

You should try to appear before the court on each hearing and continuously pursue your case because if appellant or plaintiff does not appear in the court on each hearing then advocate will get opportunity to manage and frustrate the case by their connivance.

Shivendra Pratap Singh
Advocate, Lucknow
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78 Consultations

for appropriate and concrete advise I would request you to share the copy of the order passed by the trial court.

Further, prima facie yours seems to be a good case, it was not upon the mother to further execute a gift deed in favor of the daughter since the property in question has been gifted to son. The fresh gift deed could only have been made after getting the previous gift deed cancelled.

Let me know if I can be of further help.

Regards

Anilesh Tewari
Advocate, New Delhi
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377 Consultations

The gift deed executed by the mother in favor of the daughter is valid, provided it was a a registered document.

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It is not understood that on what basis did the son get a decree in his favor.

Whether you have included all the details that were not considered by the trial court, in the appeal

You can be in touch with your advocate on the appeal matter.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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2493 Consultations

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