Children will also have a right to the property due to their parents. The verdict was announced by a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud. The supreme court has held that children born in legally invalid marriages also have the right to ancestral property in Hindu joint families. Children will also have a right to the property due to their parents. The verdict was announced by a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud. The supreme court ruled on whether children born out of wedlock have a right to inherited property. The supreme Court's verdict has overturned the 2011 madras high court verdict. Earlier under the Hindu Law of Succession, children of illegitimate marriages could only inherit their own parents' property. They were not given the right to inherited property. Various petitions reached the supreme court questioning the judgment of the madras high court which upheld this.
The supreme Court's judgment observed that when social conditions change, what was previously illegal sometimes has to be given legal validity. Children born to partners living together will also get the benefit of this ruling. The new ruling also gives property rights to children born out of wedlock. Senior advocate kiran Suri and advocate sriram Parakkat appeared for the petitioners in the case.
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