Historically, India has been a patriarchal society. In such a situation, since independence, many wonderful schemes have been run by the Central and State Governments from time to time to empower women at the social level and increase their participation in various fields on par with men. Not only this, many provisions have also been made in the Indian Constitution regarding women's rights. This is a big reason, why women in the country are moving forward on various fronts. Same thing when it comes to property rights related to women. In such a situation, many women have a lot of confusion regarding this. Many people believe that women also have full rights to their husband's property after marriage. However, this is not completely true. In this series, let us know what rights a wife gets in her husband's property after marriage.
Let us tell you that if a woman's husband dies. In such a situation, the woman does not have any right over her husband's ancestral property. It is worth noting that after the death of the husband, the in-laws cannot throw the wife out of the house.
During this period, the in-laws have to pay maintenance to the woman. The court decides the maintenance amount considering the financial condition of the woman. Whereas if the woman has children. In such a situation, the father's share of the property goes to his children.
Whereas if a widow marries another person. In this situation, he gets maintenance from his in-laws. He stops.
Whereas if the husband has earned the property by himself. Both the child and the mother have rights over it. You must know about these property rights related to women.
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