I have a question regarding succession under Hindu law. A Hindu woman is legally divorced and remains unmarried after the divorce. She has no children from her first marriage. She owns self-acquired property and dies without making a will (intestate). Her father has passed away, but her mother is alive. She also has one brother and one sister. In this situation, who will inherit her self-acquired property after her death?
Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the entire self-acquired property of the deceased woman will be inherited solely by her mother.
Her brother and sister will not receive any share as long as her mother is alive.
If the mother had also passed away prior to her death, the self-acquired property would then have been divided equally between the brother and the sister( as heirs of the father).
