https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196044 A daughter's coparcenary rights under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 apply where no partition was completed before the statutory cutoff date. A preliminary decree in a partition suit does not amount to final partition; the suit remains open until a final decree and division by metes and bounds. On supervening legal change before final decree, the court may modify the preliminary decree or pass another preliminary decree to reflect the altered rights. The amended law was applied liberally, and the daughters were held entitled to equal shares because no completed partition had taken place before 20 December 2004. en-us Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:59:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196044 A daughter's coparcenary rights under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 apply where no partition was completed before the statutory cutoff date. A preliminary decree in a partition suit does not amount to final partition; the suit remains open until a final decree and division by metes and bounds. On supervening legal change before final decree, the court may modify the preliminary decree or pass another preliminary decree to reflect the altered rights. The amended law was applied liberally, and the daughters were held entitled to equal shares because no completed partition had taken place before 20 December 2004. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196044