Succession

2008(3) TAMILNADU LAW NOTES JOURNAL – Page 292 (Civil)

Hindu Marriage Act 1955 – Section 16 – Children born out of void marriages are legitimate but cannot become coparcener in the Hindu Undivided Family of their father – Suit for partition filed by Second wife children in all properties including ancestral – decreed by trail court – on appeal by first wife and children High court held that children born to second wife are also legitimate but are only entitled to share in the self acquired properties of father and not in ancestral as they are not coparceners – appeal allowed in part.