- As per law, after the death of your father, now all his legal heirs, whether alive or not become the sharer into the said property.
- If any legal heir died without getting any share , then their legal heirs having right into the same.
- Further, they can seek their right after filing a partition suit in the Court.
- Hence, you cannot deny their share legally, even you are living into the same since longer period or have constructed the same.
- Partition suit can be filed in the absence of any property documents , if admitted by other legal heirs.
- However, you can ask for the expenditures of alternations , constructions etc at the time of partition from the siblings.
- Since , you are having a duplicate copy of the property, then after giving details in the office of the Registrar , you can get a certified copy , which is very much acceptable for all purposes.