Disowning Children
Parents are legaly bound to maintain their minor children i.e. Children below 18 years of age.
Usually parents disown their children due to child’s involvement in criminal activity, family disputes, refusal to follow family traditions/rules/values or marriage to a partner not approved by them.
It is common practice for parents to disown their son on light indication of trouble in his matrimonial life, with the soal purpose of saving their skin from matrimonial cases.
Parents publish public notice in daily news paper and execute affidavit claiming that they are disowning their son.
Courts do not apriciate mere publication of notice in news papers. Parents have to either execute registered will disowning/disinheriting their son or the son has to execute registered relinquishment deed or registered partition deed ro show bona-fide disowning.
If court is shown that the son kept on meeting his parents even after them disowning him or if parents and relatives frequently met the son, then the court may conclude that the parents have disowned their son only to circumvent legal provisions.
Parents must execute registered Will disowning their son from all their movable and immovable assets.
If a husband is fighting divorce case against his wife or if criminal cases are filed by the wife against him and his family members, then in case off husband’s death his wife will be legaly entitled to share in all husband’s properties as his class 1 legal heir long with their children and husband’s mother.
The husband must execute a will disintegrating his wife from all his assets.
The wife does not have any right in the husband or his parents properties.
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