• Property rights of husband on first wives property after her death.

My mother passed leaving a property and i am the lone daughter. My father remarried and has two children from second wife. Few years back my father transferred the property onto my name. Does my fathers second wife children have rights on my mothers property.
Asked 5 years ago in Property Law
Religion: Hindu

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30 Answers

The property was your mother's and now has been transferred to you. The property belongs to you and nobody has a share in it. Not even your father.

Regards 

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
14088 Answers
65 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Second wife children have no share in your mother property 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
94723 Answers
7535 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Hi

 if the transfer has been done through an absolute transfer deed, via gift deed /sale or release deed registered , it will be legally treated as effectively transferred and other legal heirs can't make claim/right.

Thresiamma G. Mathew
Advocate, Mumbai
1642 Answers
212 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Hello, 

1)  The children born out if your father's second wife do not have any right in the property of your deceased mother. 

2)  In the absence of your father seeking any claim by transferring the property, the only other person who has a right is your mother's mother if she is still alive. 

S J Mathew
Advocate, Mumbai
3548 Answers
175 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

No they will not have right as it's already transferred to you. 

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
31951 Answers
179 Consultations

4.1 on 5.0

1. Well,  this property was your mother's and o her death this was inherited by you and your father in equal share.

2. Now it is not clear whether your father has gifted his half share in your name or not. if yes then you are its sole owner now and no one can claim it from you.

3. Even if it is not transferred to you as yet then also your father now can gift his half share in your name or he can gift this to his second wife or the children from second marriage.

4. in either circumstances your half share is untouched. 

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
22824 Answers
488 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

no

they cannot be called your mother's legal heirs

the legal heirs of your mother are you and your father

as property is already transferred to you, the second wife and children can claim nothing 

Yusuf Rampurawala
Advocate, Mumbai
7514 Answers
79 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Dear client,

They will not have any right in the property which was in owned by your mother. They and  will also have rich in the property which is owned by your father.

Jaswant Singh
Advocate, Gurugram
929 Answers
2 Consultations

4.8 on 5.0

No,they won't get any share on that property.

Seshukumar Kuchibhotla
Advocate, Hyderabad
57 Answers

5.0 on 5.0

1. Your father's second wife and children of the second marriage are not entitled to a share in deceased mother's property.

2. It's good that your father got your deceased mother's property in your name.

Shashidhar S. Sastry
Advocate, Bangalore
5116 Answers
314 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

They have no right but your father have equal right. Ask your father to either execute release or gift deed in your favor, otherwise after his demise they can claim share in father`s half share.

Yogendra Singh Rajawat
Advocate, Jaipur
22636 Answers
31 Consultations

4.4 on 5.0

Your father's second wife nor his children from that marriage do not have any rights in your mother's properties.

Since your father transferred his share in the property to your name, you will become the absolute owner of the entire property left behind by your deceased mother.

 

 

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
84925 Answers
2195 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Hi 

Your step brother or sister has no right in the property transferred by your father to you.

Ganesh Singh
Advocate, New Delhi
6757 Answers
16 Consultations

4.5 on 5.0

By virtue of gift deed you became the absolute owner and there is no hassle in transfer or sale of property by you.

Ganesh Singh
Advocate, New Delhi
6757 Answers
16 Consultations

4.5 on 5.0

Once gift deed is executed duly stamped and registered you are absolute owner of the property 

 

you are at liberty to sell the property 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
94723 Answers
7535 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

You have received it by registered gift deed. You are absolute owner. They have no say.

Yogendra Singh Rajawat
Advocate, Jaipur
22636 Answers
31 Consultations

4.4 on 5.0

Dear Client,

No, children from second will not created any problem because you have got transfered the property of your father through will.

Jaswant Singh
Advocate, Gurugram
929 Answers
2 Consultations

4.8 on 5.0

No,  they cannot stake any claim for a share in this property since your father transferred his share in the property to your name during his lifetime. 

Moreover this was your mother's property,  they do not have any rights in it.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
84925 Answers
2195 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

No they dint have a share and even if they file a case it would be dismissed as not maintainable.

Regards 

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
14088 Answers
65 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

If they create a hurdle it will not stand in Court

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
31951 Answers
179 Consultations

4.1 on 5.0

1. Since the property was your deceased mother's property, on her intestate death, the rights on the property would devolve to your father and you (Assuming that you are the only child).

2. As per your narration, your father had gifted his share of the property to you through a registered Gift Deed, thus making you the absolute owner of the property.

3. Even if the second wife and her children try to claim any right over the property, the same does not hold water( this opinion is based on your narration in the question).

Shashidhar S. Sastry
Advocate, Bangalore
5116 Answers
314 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Your property does not belong to ancestral nature so the property share you got from your mother as well as the seat of your father transferred through a will is entirely your property and you can sell the property your step siblings will have no right on the property along with their mother

Vimlesh Prasad Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
6852 Answers
23 Consultations

4.9 on 5.0

Once property transferred you are absolute owner.  

Second wife childrens have no share in said property. 

Mohammed Mujeeb
Advocate, Hyderabad
19299 Answers
32 Consultations

4.7 on 5.0

Since your father executed a registered gift deed in your name.. you can go ahead and deal with the property in whatsoever manner you wish No Worries.

Mohammed Mujeeb
Advocate, Hyderabad
19299 Answers
32 Consultations

4.7 on 5.0

Dear madam

They cannot claim any right on your mother property. As it doesn't belong to your father or his ancestors.

but can claim the property of your father if it was ancestral property of your father.

And also you can claim ancestral property of your father from them. It will be beneficial for you.

Mohit Kapoor
Advocate, Rohtak
10687 Answers
7 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

They would not have any share in your mother's property and hence cannot claim the same.

Siddharth Jain
Advocate, New Delhi
6303 Answers
102 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

You can sell the property.There is no legal infirmity.

Siddharth Jain
Advocate, New Delhi
6303 Answers
102 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Second wife and her children has no right on the property of your mother. Further see father transfer his share from registered deed then don't have share on that also otherwise they can claim share on your fathers share in mother's property. 

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
25514 Answers
179 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

See since it was done with registered gift deed you are absolute owner and they have no right and cannot create any hurdule in sale of the property. 

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
25514 Answers
179 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Dear Madam,

No, nobody cannot claim your property.  it is your absolute property  given by your father through gift and it is property of your mother.  

The property of a Hindu female dying intestate, or without a will, shall devolve in the following order:

  • upon the sons and daughters (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) and the husband,
  • upon the heirs of the husband.
  • upon the father and mother.
  • upon the heirs of the father, and.

Netravathi Kalaskar
Advocate, Bengaluru
4952 Answers
27 Consultations

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