A big shopping deadline is drawing near for some people, and it has nothing to do with the holidays. Millions of people use flexible spending accounts to help pay for health care, and some may lose money left in those accounts if they don’t spend it by year’s end. FSAs let you set aside money from your paycheck before taxes …
The struggle of a Hindu woman to achieve equality in matters of succession has been going on for decades with major landmarks being the Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937, The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and The Hindu Succession Act, 2005. One, in complete contrast to Section 15, Section 8 of the HSA provides the order of succession for …
The Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, ruled that a daughter has the same rights as a son in ancestral property under the Hindu Succession Act, 2005, irrespective of whether the father was alive at the time of the amendment. Till its amendment in 2005, the principle law - the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - did not grant daughters rights …
On August 11, the Supreme Court of India ruled that a daughter has the same rights as a son in an ancestral property under the Hindu Succession Act, 2005, regardless of when the father may have died, which the principle law – the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – originally did not grant. The assumptions in the Hindu Succession Act that …