Dhruv Naidu (Business) 24 October 2022

Ancestral property

We have an ancestral property(agricultural land),which my father has been looking after for the last 40 years since his father died.

My father has put all of his money into converting the empty lands into mango orchards.

My father has one sister who married in 1952, and now her sons have arrived and are requesting the property.

I was wondering if they still had rights to the property after 70 years of their mother's marriage.

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This discussion concerns the rights of relatives to claim a share of ancestral agricultural land, specifically mango orchards developed over 40 years. The original owner's sister's sons are requesting a share of the property, despite their mother marrying 70 years ago. The consensus suggests that siblings, and by extension their descendants, generally retain rights to ancestral property unless it was purchased solely by the current occupant's funds.

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Puspendu Dutta (Advocate ) 24 October 2022

As its your father's ancestral probperty therefor your father's siblings obiously ask for it's share . If your father would had buy it by his own money then his siblings would be ineligible to get share.