Property Rights: Can a daughter-in-law share in her father-in-law's property? Know the legal provisions

News, Digital Desk- ( Property Knowledge) People are often confused about the claim and the rightful owners of ancestral property, especially when the property belongs to the father or father-in-law. The rules and laws of property keep changing with time. It is important to know who is entitled to the property and who can claim it.

Lack of knowledge of property laws often leads to disputes, especially when it comes to the rights of the daughter-in-law. There are many misunderstandings about what rights a daughter-in-law has in her in-laws' house and property. 

Today we will tell you in detail about the rights of a daughter-in-law in her in-laws' property according to Indian law so that such confusions can be reduced.

Everyone knows that the security law has given the woman the right to live in the house with her husband. This right is in addition to the woman's right to alimony and protection from mental and physical violence. 

But the issue related to the wife's rights in the husband's property is also an important issue related to property division. Whether the wife has any right in the property of the husband and in-laws or not and what are the legal provisions related to this.

What is the legal provision-

If a person has earned any property (such as land, house, money or jewellery) through his hard work, then the person who has earned it has full right over it. 

He can sell that property, mortgage it, make a will or even donate it. All legal rights in this regard remain reserved with the same person, whether he is married or not.

Daughter-in-law's right on the property

of her parents-in-law- Generally, a woman has no right on the property of her parents-in-law, neither while they are alive nor after their death. The husband has the first right on the property. 

However, if the husband dies first and then the mother-in-law and father-in-law die , then the woman's right on their property is established.

For this, it is necessary that the mother-in-law and father-in-law  have not made a will regarding the property and given it to anyone else. 

Even the son can live in the parent's house only as long as the parents allow. He cannot exercise legal rights to live in it. This is in the case, unless the father himself has purchased the said property.