Succession to property of Hindu female dying intestate under the Hindu Succession Act 1956

Your aunt in Thane worked as a schoolteacher all her life, bought a flat, and received some gold from her parents and a house share from her husband. She dies without a will and without children. Does everything go to her husband's family, or does some go back to her parents' side? The Act answers by asking one question about every item of property: where did she get it from?

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A female Hindu's property is hers absolutely (s.14); if she dies intestate it passes by s.15 in five steps, but property inherited from her parents or from her husband or father-in-law goes back to that source when she leaves no children (s.15(2)).

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