00:00We've been providing legal services to non-resident Indians for the last 23
00:04years and dealing with their property matters and their assets in India or
00:09their inheritance in India lately there have been people who have contacted us
00:15who have inherited jointly owned properties in India and those properties
00:21are not in their control they are being managed by the other siblings or people
00:26in India who are co-owners to that property and that could be lands and that
00:31could be houses in the cities and the villages etc etc I really do not know how
00:39else to suggest an alternative route to you other than saying that if you are a
00:46co-owner of an inherited asset in India the only possible way for you to get
00:52control manage transfer or sell that property is through partition partition
00:59is a legal right which any one a co-owner can exercise in the competent court of
01:05law and without exercising this right if you think you can get your properties to
01:13control or manage well it does happen but very very seldom again for girls now we
01:21all know that the succession rights in India changed now a decade and a half
01:26ago and girls inherit equal rights just as the sons and mostly the properties of
01:33the father are in control of the boys now if these girls want to ever control or
01:40manage that assets the only way through filing a partition in the competent court of
01:46law without that I do not think or I haven't really heard people doing it amicably
01:53simply once you have a control of the property and you know that the other
01:57co-owners are not even living in India it's virtually impossible for anyone to
02:02just hand you over the property now let's say even if there is an amicable
02:06settlement how would you actually sell that asset how would you actually divide
02:12that asset not all the assets are equally divisible in all the legal areas so you
02:18will eventually have to get the partition through the court or there or else sell
02:23that property together sometimes people who live in the properties do not want to
02:28sell because it doesn't suit them but definitely for you to to sell your share
02:34and get the assets transferred in your name you will have to go in for
02:38partition so partitioning is a very important step if you are a co-owner of
02:44your property and you are looking to manage transfer or sell it thank you
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