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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Advocate Dr. Rau P S Girwar is an esteemed advocate and has been involved in the field of law since 2010 and has contested cases in the Supreme Court of India and various high courts including the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Delhi High Court, Indore High Court and various district and sessions courts.

He has an excellence and experience in civil, criminal, constitutional and service matters and has a wide range of experiences in various matters including money laundering, narcotic and murder cases.

This article has been written with assistance of his junior Kushaatula Puhanian, who is a second year law-student studying at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.

INTRODUCTION

India is a secular country with every religion having its own personal laws. Hindus have live
in a joint family since long period of time thus accumulating their property in the form of both
joint and separate property which has sometimes create difficulties for the coming generations
and the people of the same generations as to whether the property has to be dealt as joint or
separate after death of the person holding the property. This had been a major problem since
decades and has been solved by the Courts and has been given clarity after the passing of the
Hindu Succession Act in 1956 and further amendment in the year 2005.
This article deals with the incident of coparcenary explaining the meaning if coparcenary
and the types of property that are held by the coparcenary along with amendments brought by
way of judicial decisions and statutes.