1. Search for a local advocate; can be found via reference.
2. Discuss brief with him and appoint him to represent your interest.
3. Post 2005 – now a married daughter also would acquire ownership rights on the property from the time of her conception. She has the same rights of partition and power to deal with the property as she pleases, this right extends to seeking a partition and sale of the family home as well. Hence there is a complete parity in terms of rights. However it would be profitable to remind ourselves that these rights extend to only ancestral properties and not separate properties (which include property earned by gift/will/acquired through purchase from own funds/acquisitions from own skill etc.) Find out the nature of your deceased father’s property before venturing out to discuss the same with an Advocate.
4. The right to get your equivalent share of the property can be exercised only in cases where there has been no formal partition (partition either through court final decree or through a registered partition deed) before 20.12.2004. In case a partition has already been finalised before the said date, the right collapses. Find this out too.
5. A married daughter can approach the Civil Court for seeking a partition from their brothers/family/mother etc. Their right is equal. Once acquired a lady is free to deal with the property the way she likes and it becomes her absolute property and her children have no right during her lifetime.
6. A married daughter can file a suit for partition, on which certain court fees is payable. This court fee depends on the value of her share in the property and has to be calculated as per court fee chart.