• Transfer of property

Hi, I am from Chennai and writing on behalf of my mother(as daughter)

Currently my mom likes to write a will for this property share(which is yet to be divided) to one of their legal heirs(one daughter & one son) and wanted to get a legal opinion as the property went through a series of events as mentioned below.

Firstly, the property was executed to my mom from a third party seller as a sale deed in the year 1986.
Again property was gifted to my father from mother as a settlement deed in the year 1989. For building the house, My father has mortgaged our property with the Government of India in the year 1990. 

In 2004, My father went missing, untraceable till now, and In 2008, My brother and I had provided an affidavit, a no objection letter to Dad's office requesting a name transfer of property in favour of my mother. In the same year, Property ownership was transferred to my mother's name in the sub-registrar office with reconveyance deed.

Currently we would like to obtain my father death certificate through court, however brother has an objection and he wants to settle his share. therefore he asking us to put him as defendant party and would to like drag the case until my mother passes out.

Questions:
1. My mother wanted to write a will to of their 1/3rd undivided portion to daughter while they are in good health.
2. on the contrary, My brother does not want the property to be partioned now because it will be divided into 3 shares instead he would like to wait till my mother death and wanted to claim is one of share.

Thank you!
Asked 4 years ago in Property Law
Religion: Hindu

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9 Answers

Your father went missing and has not been declared dead by court 

 

2) 

You would be required to file a Civil Suit for Declaration seeking a declaration that your father , on account of being missing and untraceable for more than 7 years, may be treated as deceased.

 

3) on father being declared property would devolve on your mother ,you and your siblings 

 

4) reconveyance in mother name merely on basis of affidavit would not make your mother absolute owner of property 

 

5) if she executed will in favour of one legal heir it may not withstand legal scrutiny 

 

6) she can execute will for her share in property 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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There is no legal infirmity by your mother transferring her 1/3rd undivided share in the proeprty to your name by a testamentary disposition i.e., a Will.

Let she get this Will executed by a registered document so that it would be enforced in court of law without any obstructions from your brother, even if he had any objection it can be over ruled owing to the nature of Will, i.e.,. a registered Will.

By the way if the property was re-conveyed to your mother by a registered document, in my opinion, she should be holding an indisputable title to the property, in that event she can bequeath the entire property to your name or even transfer the property to your name by executing a registered settlement deed by withholding lifetime interests on her. 

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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Dear client, 

yes, she can write the property as 1/3 and divide it equally amongst all. However, it is self-acquired property of your mother now and she can do as she wishes. It is to her if she wants to give your brother the share or not. 

Thank you

Anik Miu
Advocate, Bangalore
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125 Consultations

You can engage any lawyer for drafting will 

 

2) your brother presence is not required for drafting of will 

 

3) registration of will is optional 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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I assume that the 'reconveyance deed' you have mentioned is nothing but a discharge receipt filed by the government department concerned upon redemption of the mortgage charge over the property standing in your father's name. It does not and cannot mean that the property has been reconveyed to your mother legally. It still stands in your father's name, in all probability. Please take out an EC and verify the factual position. As your father has remained untraceable since 2004, have you filed a police complaint and inserted any advertisement in the newspaper? If a person has not been traced for 7 years or more, legally he/she is presumed to be 'dead'. However, you should have filed a police complaint and obtained a 'non-traceable certificate' from them. As things stand now, your mother, your brother and you shall stand to inherit your father's property equally. Your mother may very well bequeath her 1/3rd undivided share to you by means of a Will.

Swaminathan Neelakantan
Advocate, Coimbatore
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You have been misguided by a document writer with unnecessary issues.

If you wanted to write a Will, you do not have to go to registrar office instead you can very well write the Will through a lawyer in the local.

Your mother intends to bequeath her share in the proeprty through a Will, in which she will contend the details of how she acquires then share of property that is being transferred to your name, for this there is no necessity for your father's death certificate neither your brother's consent is required.

Do not be misguided without understanding the law involved in this.

 

You can consult a local lawyer instead approaching a document writer.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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2508 Consultations

Dear Client,

For writing will you need there should be a signature by the testator in the presence of at least 2 witnesses. The witnesses do not need to know the details of the will they just have to verify that the signature by the testator was done before them. 

Thank You.

Anik Miu
Advocate, Bangalore
11081 Answers
125 Consultations

1. She can write a will

2. That's his choice when to go for partition

3. You can pay the stamp duty anytime online

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
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Is the property redeemed from mortgage?

Do you have missing person complaint and acknowledgement from police?

Instead of Will get it partitioned through court.

G.RAJAGANAPATHY 

High Court of Madras 

Rajaganapathy Ganesan
Advocate, Chennai
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