Property Rights: Marriage is an important part of every person’s life and is considered a very important decision. It is often seen that the daughter’s parents often bow down to maintain her status better in her in-laws’ house, so that their daughter does not face any problems. But this does not mean that they should keep fulfilling every demand of the in-laws, whether it is right or wrong. Doing this is not right at all. In a case related to this, the court made it clear that the son-in-law has no legal right over his father-in-law’s property, even if he has helped financially in buying or building that property.
However, if the father-in-law transfers his property in the name of the son-in-law, then that property becomes the legal property of the son-in-law and the father-in-law has no right over it. But, if the transfer of property has been done by fraud or force, then it can be challenged in the court. Taking the matter to court is a legal right.
Similarly, something similar happens in the case of a wife. The wife has no legal right over the ancestral property of her husband or in-laws. If the husband dies, the wife gets only as much share as her husband would have. However, in terms of ancestral property, if the in-laws die after the husband, the woman can get rights over the property. The condition for this is that the in-laws have not transferred their property to anyone else through a will. Only then can the wife get rights over that property.
If the father-in-law has earned the property himself, then he has the right to decide to whom he wants to give the property. The father-in-law can make anyone the heir of his property through his will. The father-in-law can give the property to his son-in-law through a will. Apart from this, if the father-in-law wants, he can give his self-acquired property to his son-in-law through a gift deed.
If the son-in-law has helped his father-in-law in buying the property and there is evidence of this, then he can make a claim on the basis of contribution. However, the claim for a share in the property will have to be proved legally. After the death of the father-in-law, his daughter inherits the property, and later if the daughter dies without making a will, in that case the son-in-law can become a sharer in his wife’s property.