Payment of maintenance to senior citizen
We are four sons. My father was borne with 2 sisters. My grand father had purchased a no of properties and executed a will clearly mentioning that all his property should be inherited by his only son and 4 grandsons My father had expired leaving behind his widow and four sons. My elder brother had also expired leaving behind his wife, a daughter & a son. After discontinuing his studies at class 10 my younger brother settled in our ancestral house admeasuring about 40 cents and also started using acres of agricultural lands according to his whims and fancy. Because of his greed, bad company and habits he started loosing money. .After the death of my father my younger brother insisted on settling each of the properties one by one. When he wanted tro dispose of the residential property in Tirupur Town, Tamilnadu in 2011, i expressed my desire to retain the property and disagreed to sell. After a long ordial other legal heirs agreed to settle the property thru a family settlement release deed in my favour by taking the market price as consideration. Even after that the selling of property continued. In 2014 when my younger brother insisted on settlement of agricultural land admeasuirng about 7.18 acres in our native village for a nominal value much lower that the guideline value we insisted on partition. Since my mother aged about 75 is alive it was decided to partition the property into 5 parts to ensure some source of funds to meet my mothers expenses which was agreed to be divided among the other legal heirs. My younger brother misrepresented and prepared the partion deed giving 1/5 share to my mother. Subsequently he coerced her to execute two settlement deed in his favour transferring the whole of the property partiioned in my mothers name. On execution of the first settlement deed minor suit was filed on behalf of my son for his right in his grand fathers share. After service of notice for the above suit my younger brother executed the second settlement deed for the second half. Also without filing his written statement obtained time for filing of written statement and sold the entire 1.40 acres to a third party. I live in a rented house in chennai for my son's studies who is doing his class 2. I have meager income from letting out of the property settled in my name and my wife works in a private concern to enable us to meet our expenses.
Now that he has sold and bagged the whole sale price of the property in my mothers name my younger brother had pursuaded by mother to complaint against me & other 2 brothers for payment of monthly maintenance charges. I have received a phone call claiming to be the revenue inspector instructing that they have received a complaint and asking us to appear in the revenue office for enquiry. I have informed that if wrtitten summon is received i along with my attorney will appear for hearing. Wish to know are they authorised to summon for such cases. If so what remedies do i have .
Asked 5 years ago in Family Law
Religion: Hindu