Registered will

The ancestral property of a Hindu is to be divided as per Hindu Law and Custom, However if the property is self acquired, the transfer of it is at the will of person who has acquired that property.

IF THE FATHER OF YOUR FRIEND HAS  GOT THIS PROPERTY IN HIS HANDS FROM HIS FATHER,THEN YOUR FRIEND HAS A SHARE IN THE PROPERTY ALONG WITH YOUR FATHER. IF YOUR FRIENDS' FATHER CREATED THE PROPERTY FROM HIS OWN MEANS OF EARNING THEN HE HAD RIGHT TO WILL IT TO ANY BODY OF HIS CHOICE.

HOWEVER THE WILL CAN BE CHALLANGED BY YOUR FRIEND ON GROUND THAT WILLL IS RESULT OF UNDUE INFLUENCE PLAYED UPON HIM BY YOUR FRIENDS SISTER AND THAT ON THE DATE OF WILL HE WAS SO ILL THAT HE WAS NOT CAPABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF WILL AND THAT HE WAS CORDIAL AND NEVER INTENDED TO DEPRIVE YOUR FRIEND FROM INHERITENCEPROVIDED THE CAUSE OF ACTION HAS NOT BECOME TIME BARRED WHICH IS 3 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE WILL IN THIS CASE.