Ancestral home dispute - 2nd generation
I am writing here to seek an advice on the legal dispute over our ancestral home.
Background:
My ancestral home was bought by my paternal grandmother in 1970’s (that time the money was sponsored by 1st younger brother as her husband passed away & my grandmother with her 4 kids did not had any place for shelter. That time the property was in my “Paternal Grandmother” (here after referred as “grandma”) name and also registered in her name).
Later after 10 years grandma’s another younger brother (grandma had 6 brothers), 2nd younger brother registered the home in his name without my grandma’s notice (2nd younger brother took grandma to registrar office saying some property work and falsely took her signatures on the registration papers). My grandma was never aware of such things and time passed, my father came to know this change of registration when he was in college (now his age is 61), to create more complexity grandma’s 2nd younger brother changed the ownership to his wife’s name and later his wife changed it to her daughter’s name.
As of today, all the first parties 1st younger brother, 2nd younger brother including my grandma has passed away and this property dispute is carried forward to 2nd generation. Currently my parents fighting this land dispute with 2nd Brother’s daughter (Mrs. Ramaa).
We as family been staying in the house from the very first date of registration (from 1970), now Mrs. Ramaa has filed a case in the court. As this whole dispute was under one family we tried to resolve this by mutual consent till date. Please advice on legal procedure and also explain how can we take legal help?
In the meantime, we offered Mrs. Ramaa & her family reasonable money to buy the property but their expectations are too high and they are asking us the market price. Apart from monetary value me & my parents have lots of sentiments attached to this ancestral home. As of now I don’t see Mrs. Ramaa & her family will agree for any out of court settlement. Please advise if court or legal procedure help us in negotiating this deal?
Sincerely looking for the right advice.
Sandeep W
Asked 10 years ago in Property Law