Can children claim a share in property inherited by their father? Karnataka HC explains when they can—and cannot
The Karnataka High Court ruled that property inherited by a father from his father's self-acquired assets does not automatically become ancestral property for grandchildren. In the case of Smt. Usha N. Swamy, the court dismissed her claim for a share in her grandfather's properties, stating that coparcenary rights arise only in ancestral property, not in self-acquired assets. This ruling clarifies that the legal character of inherited property depends on its source of acquisition, not merely on generational transfer.