Hindu law-Joint family- Whether there is presumption that
property held by any member thereof is joint--Existence of
some nucleus-Burden of Proving self ... existence of a Hindu
joint family does not lead to the presumption that property
held by any member of the family is joint
undivided family". In the first place, joint family and
undivided family are synonymous terms. Secondly, when one
says that a joint Hindu family consists ... father was at his death a member of a Hindu undivided
family, the same undivided family of which his son, when
alive was a member
joint family and a joint family property continues to retain its joint family character so long as the joint family property is in existence ... presumption of a joint Hindu family but on the evidence if it is established that the property was joint Hindu family property and the other
substantive
rule of Hindu Law. He further says that it is wellsettled
according to Hindu Law that joint Hindu family comes into
existence from ... this doctrine of
Hindu Law can be applied for the purpose of determining the
coming into being of a Hindu undivided family as an
assessable
joint Hindu family, is joint family property and the burden lies upon the person who asserts that a particular property is joint family property ... joint Hindu family and there was no expression of the intention to have separation from the joint family and thus, the joint family status continued
Wealth Tax Act not a Hindu coparcenary but
a Hindu Undivided Family is one of the assessable legal
entities. A Hindu joint family consists ... Arunachalam was at his
death a member of the Hindu Undivided Family, the same
undivided family of which his son, when alive, was a member
family property
among its coparceners who thus form a separate family
unit. Each coparcener gets a part of the family property
on its partition ... circumstances have been detailed
above. As per settled canons of Hindu Law, HUF having been
completely partitioned the share of property became individual
family affairs or in possession of sufficient joint family assets, it is likely that the joint family property or part thereof formed the nucleus from ... members of a joint Hindu Family to divide some properties of the family and to keep the remaining undivided. Such properties as are not partitioned
They claim 2/3rd
share therein as coparceners of the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF)
consisting of themselves and respondent ... from the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act,
2005 , in a Joint Hindu family governed by the Mitakshara law, the
daughter of a coparcener
identifying joint family property
with ancestral joint family property. Where there is ancestral
joint family property, every member of the family acquires ... plaint after passing of the Hindu Succession Act 1956,
that there is a joint Hindu family or an HUF and a person