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Indian practice of dowry is all set to be banned in Victoria, Australia

Women’s rights advocate and previous head Ted Baillieu is pushing to have the Indian practice of dowry banned in Victoria claiming that it prompts household tortures and the abuse of ladies. Mr. Baillieu tabled a request in State Parliament in April calling for alterations to family viciousness laws. Financial ill-use was made illicit under the Family Violence Act in 2008, however campaigners additionally need a particular boycott on the share, which would bring state law into line with Indian law.The move has brought about profound fractures inside the state’s 190,000-in number Indian group…

The inheritance property rights of the children born out of void marriages

The issue of women’s rights to property under Hindu law has always been an argumentative one. Prior, women dependably had constrained rights to property, which returned again to the spouse’s siblings on the off chance if she didn’t have children. A Hindu lady could appreciate the property in her lifetime, yet she couldn’t will it to anybody. Essentially, under standard Hindu law there was no bar to a man entering a second marriage.On the other hand, the standard law was systematized by the institution of the Hindu Marriage Act in 1956, which proclaimed as void a second marriage throughout the…

Equal Inheritance Right to Daughters in Ancestral Property

In the year 2005, parliament amended the hindu succession Act. It governs on division of property among undevided family. Daughters are being allowed to have equal rights as son. They were made coparcener in the ancestral property. (Who is coparcener? Ans: A coparcener shares with others inheritance in the estate of a common ancestor.) Now the confusion whether this change comes into effect after sept 9 2005 or cases before that. Here supreme court has clarified that it does apply to the cases from before.Followings are major findings by supreme court:Section 6 of Hindu consession act confer…

Inheritance rights of step sons as per the Indian legal provisions

As per the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, neither ‘son’ nor ‘step-son’ has been defined; therefore the room for expressions have always been open to judicial interpretation. The expression ‘son’ has also been used in the list of Class I heirs, but here again, the phrase ‘stepson’ has not been specifically included. To begin with, it is generally accepted that the expression “son” undoubtedly includes natural, adopted and even illegitimate sons, though the rules governing succession of each to the shared or self-acquired property of the father would be quite different.For…

Intellectual property rights in Indian contexts and the laws

The Law of Intellectual Property is implied for consolation for manifestations, developments and obviously for revelations. In 2001 the UN issued a report called :” Human Rights and licensed innovation” that argued that protected innovation has a tendency to be represented by financial objectives when it ought to be seen fundamentally as social norm, keeping in mind the end goal to serve human prosperity protected innovation frameworks must admiration and fit in with human right laws.As stated by the Committee; when frameworks neglect to do so, they encroach upon the human right to sustenance…

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