The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal in a decades-old family property dispute, holding that a gift deed could not stand where the donor had already surrendered his claim over the land under a ...

What is the validity of oral partition in property related cases, especially when related documents support the claim? A recent judgment of the Madras High Court is important in this regard since it ...

A home can be stolen with a forged deed, and that lost deed leads to the loss of one of the values of owning a property: its equity.

The Tamil Nadu government will introduce paperless registration for four categories of family arrangement deeds from November ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that an individual who has surrendered rights over ancestral properties under a family settlement ...

Attesting brother’s sale deed has major legal consequences in proving oral partition of ancestral land; How children lost 3.5 acre land dispute case in Madras HC because of this. Read this article to ...

For home building insurers and claims teams, the decision reinforces that legal ownership - not equitable arrangements between co-owners - is the touchstone for the developer exclusion, and that ...

Deeding fractional slices of a rental property to your kids each year sounds like a clean way to shift wealth without triggering a gift tax return, but the basis trap lurking inside this strategy can ...

Calcutta HC dismissed a partition appeal from Nadia, holding that the appellant had no proven share in the disputed plot and ...

Supreme Court holds that DRT cannot decide independent property title disputes and Section 34 SARFAESI does not bar such ...

Tamil Nadu expands paperless registration to family-arrangement deeds from Nov 2 under STAR 3.0 for enhanced convenience and transparency.