Father can gift ancestral property to daughters

This ruling was given by a bench comprising Justice RC Lahoti and Justice Ashok Bhan while settling a 15-year-old dispute between a father and his daughters in Salem district of Tamil Nadu in favour of the latter by setting aside a trial court order which was upheld by the Madras High Court.

Considering several rulings of the apex court, the bench said "it can safely be held that a father can make a gift of ancestral immovable property within reasonable limits, keeping in view the total extent of the property held by the family in favour of his daughter at the time of marriage or even long after her marriage".

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