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When it comes to administering a decedent's estate, the process commonly referred to as "probate”—many people fear it is daunting and complicated, but it can actually be as simple as four steps. What is the Probate Process? Probate refers to the process whereby certain of decedent's debts may be settled and legal title to the decedent's property held in the decedent's name alone and not otherwise distributed by law is transferred to heirs and beneficiaries. If a decedent had a will, and the decedent had property subject to probate, the probate process begins when the executor, who is nominated by the decedent in the last will, presents the will for probate in a courthouse in the county where the decedent lived, or owned property. If there is no will, someone must ask the court to appoint him or her as administrator of the decedent's estate. Often, this is the spouse or an adult child of the decedent. Once appointed by the court, the executor or administrato...

In case of death of a person without leaving a will, court may grant succession certificate in order to realise securities or debts of the deceased. A civil court issues succession certificate to the legal heirs of a deceased person. It is required to establish the authenticity of the heirs. Also to authorize them to get assets or securities transferred in their names. Not to forget that assets comes with liabilities as such it also enables inheritance of debts. This is issued on the application from the beneficiary, to court as per laws of inheritance. It is necessary, though may not be always sufficient, to release or transfer the assets. For these letter of administration, no-objection certificates and death certificate is also required. Application: As discussed earlier also, a petition is required to be filed with the competent jurisdiction where the assets are located. Details: The application requires details like – name of petitioner – relationship with deceased – name...

When opening bank accounts, most of the banks try to coerce you into making a nomination in the new bank account that you open. At times you may want to create a nomination or choose to ignore the same. However, if you do make a nomination it would be extremely helpful to your family members. Many banks try to remind elderly customers if there is no nomination in the savings account or a fixed deposit. Many elderly individuals who have opened account at a very early stage may not have made a nomination. While ideally you must, here are is what could happen in case the person meets with death and there is no nomination in the savings account. A few method in which money can be claimed from the savings account of a dead person. In case of joint account with either or survivor In case the savings bank account has been with another joint account holder, then the balance in the account would be passed onto the survivor. A copy of the application, along with a photocopy of the death cer...

Inheritance in India is governed by two process – 1. By Will 2. Personal laws Inheritance under a Will A will or testament is a legal declaration expressing the wishes of a person, containing the names of one or more persons who are to manage his estate and provide for the transfer of his property at death. If a father (testator) leaves behind a Will, the property will be distributed among the brothers according to it. An executor is appointed by the testator, as distinguished from an administrator who is appointed by the court. Inheritance according to personal law Inheritance in India and the manner in which property of a deceased person is to be distributed is determined by the law of Succession, in the event where there is no will or equivalent document declaring the deceased person’s intent. Under Hindu law Section 8 and 9 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 governs the distribution of the property after the death of the Hindu male. The property of a Hindu dying int...

Right after death, get the death certificates from the municipality, which will be shown when inheriting money from bank accounts, closing the deceased bank accounts, etc. Family members are required to register the births and deaths within the prescribed period of 21 (twenty one) days from the date of death to the registrar. The registrar is: In Rural areas, Registrar (rural) – Village accountant In Urban areas the following are the registrars In case of City corporations: Health officer. In case of City Municipal councils: Health officer/Health inspector. In case of Town municipal councils: Health inspector. In case of Notified areas/Project areas/Cantonment – Health inspector. As there is no will, the legal heirs will have to get a succession certificate for inheriting the property. You should file an application in the civil court of the district where the property is of the deceased or where he normally he lived in. A notice will then be given by the court to you – th...

If the bank account of the deceased has no nominee mentioned then according to Reserve Bank circular dated 12 July 2005, if the money is less than the threshold limit decided by different banks (which is normally around Rs.1 lakh) then banks are advised to desist from insisting on production of succession certificate, letter of administration, etc. Here the legal heirs i.e. all the four successors, have to sign a letter of indemnity which states that the bank is not liable any more. The heirs, i.e. you, will be receiving payments from bank as trustee of legal heir from the deceased person. If any legal problem surfaces regarding the ownership of the bank money, then the complainant will deal directly with you and not with the bank. If the money in the bank is more than the threshold limit decided by your bank, then succession certificate is mandatory. For inheriting the money of the deceased, all the legal heirs should also write and sign a Joint application for the same. If the de...

A testator can change his Will, at any time, in any manner he deems fit. Every person of sound mind, and not a minor, can make a Will. If a person is of unsound mind at the time of making a Will, the Will is not enforceable. A Will, obtained by force, coercion or undue influence , is a void Will as it takes away the free agency of the person. A Will, made under influence of intoxication or in such a state of body or mind, sufficient to take away free agency of the testator, is void. A Will can be made at any time in the life of a person. There is no restriction on how many times a Will can be made by a testator. However, only the last Will made before his death is enforceable. A Will has to be executed by the testator, by signing or affixing his thumb impression on it. It should be attested by two or more witnesses, each of whom should have seen the testator signing the Will. Article by Advocate K.P.Satish Kumar M.L., leading Civil lawyer in Chennai For all your legal Queries c...

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre while hearing a petition seeking a nation-wide ban on the Blue Whale Game. The Court has given three weeks’ time to Centre to file a reply. The matter was heard by the Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud. Advocate CR Jaya Sukin represented the petitioner. The PIL has been filed through AoR Narendra Kumar Verma. The petition contends that the game has been introduced from abroad and has spread over many cities across the Country. It alleges that the game encourages youngsters to commit suicide after playing the game. It states, “Blue whale an on-line game encourages people to take part in increasingly dangerous harmful dares that culminate instructions to kill themselves…Blue Whale game is snatching the life of children and adults in the guise of game which would be caused very damage to our country.” The petition further contends that once a person starts playing the game he/she can...

What is Section 7a of Hindu Marriage Act 1955 ? To who it is applicable ? In the State of Tamil Nadu, an amendment was introduced by Act 21 of 1967, Section 7-A was inserted in the Hindu Marriage Act. The relevant part of the Section reads us follows :-- "7-A. Special provision regarding suyamariyathai and seerthiruththa marriages.- (1) This Section shall apply to any marriage between any two Hindus, whether called suyamariyathai marriage or seerthiruththa marriage or by any other name, solemnised in the presence of relatives, friends or other persons.- (a) by each party to the marriage declaring in any language understood by the parties that each takes the other to be his wife or as the case may be, her husband; (b) by each party to the marriage garlanding the other or putting a ring upon any finger of the other; or (c) by the tying of the thali, (2) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 7, but subject to the other provisions of this Act, ail marriages to whic...

My tenant is not giving rental for last one year and not vacating ? Is it advisable to disconnect the EB connection? can some one assist what to do next? If a person is not paying rent willfully after the land lord asks for rent is liable under Tamilnadu ( Lease and Rent Control ) Act. Rent Control Law Willful Default - Burden of proof : Once tenant admits default he has to prove that it was not willful. "Tamil Nadu Buildings [Lease and Rent Control] Act, 1960, Section 10[2][i] -Willful default : Tenant failing to pay rent immediately on inception of tenancy and committed default for 12 months , it is a case of willful default. In a case the Landlord living in same building and yet tenant sent money order representing rent for 3 months with knowledge that landlord was away to attend funeral of his mother-in-law . Money order returned as addressee not found . Tenant sent notice and landlord did not send reply . Tenant failing to take any further steps . Tenant committed willfu...

Where the purchaser does not take steps to complete the sale within the agreed period, and the vendor has not been responsible for any delay or non-performance. A purchaser can no longer take shelter under the principle that time is not of essence in performance of contracts relating to immovable property, to cover his delays, laches, breaches and `non-readiness'. The precedents from an era, when high inflation was unknown, holding that time is not of the essence of the contract in regard to immovable properties, may no longer apply, not because the principle laid down therein is unsound or erroneous, but the circumstances that existed when the said principle was evolved, no longer exist. In these days of galloping increases in prices of immovable properties, to hold that a vendor who took an earnest money of say about 10% of the sale price and agreed for three months or four months as the period for performance, did not intend that time should be the essence, will be a cruel joke...

முதல் மனைவி உயிரோடிருக்கும் போது இரண்டாவது திருமணம் செய்து கொண்ட கணவன் தன்னுடைய 2வது மனைவியை தன்னோடு சேர்த்து வாழ (Restitition Conjugal Rights) உத்தரவிடும் படி குடும்ப நீதிமன்றத்தில் மனு தாக்கல் செய்ய முடியாது. அவ்வாறு செய்யப்பட்ட திருமணம் இந்து திருமணச் சட்டம் பிரிவு 5ல் கூறப்பட்டுள்ள நிபந்தனைகளுக்கு முரணானதாகும். இந்து திருமணச் சட்டம் பிரிவு 11ன் படி அத்தகைய திருமணங்கள் சட்டப்படி செல்லாத திருமணமாகும். எனவே 2வதாக திருமணம் செய்து கொள்கிற போது முதல் மனைவி உயிரோடு இருந்தால் 2வதாக திருமணம் செய்து கொண்ட மனைவியின் மீது இந்து திருமணச் சட்டம் பிரிவு 9 அல்லது 13 ன் கீழ் கணவர் எந்த ஒரு மனுவையும் தாக்கல் செய்ய முடியாது Talk to the Leading Divorce Lawyer in Chennai @ 9551716256

The land lord can vacate the tenant from his premises according to provisions of Tamilnadu ( Lease and Rent COntrol ) Act which runs as follows:- A landlord who seeks to evict his tenant shall apply to the Controller for a direction in that behalf. If the Controller, after giving the tenant a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the application, is satisfied- 1.The tenant has not paid or tendered the rent due by him in respect of the building, within fifteen days after the expiry of the time fixed in the agreement of tenancy with his landlord or in the absence of any such agreement, by the last day of the month next following that for which the rent is payable, or 2.The tenant has without the written consent of the landlord- (a) transferred his right under the lease or sub-let the entire building or any portion thereof if the lease does not confer on him any right do do so, or (b) used the building for a purpose other than that for which it was leased, or 3. The ten...

The battle for protecting the educational rights of the common people raises a doubt, is the Indian Government is run by the Central Government of India or by the Supreme Court of India. NEET exam raises a heavy doubt whether in a major policy decision in such a matter of education where the executive and legislature which has power to decide. Can the Union power be curbed by Supreme Court of India. If it is permissible for the Supreme Court to act as a Legislative and Executive body of India, suppose it doesn’t want to do such acts. Keeping silence of Modi’s government in this matter raises whether by a back door method, Modi Sir want to curb all the linguistic states rights in education, where education falls in the concurrent list. It is the basic step that Modi government allows to shift the power of states from concurrent list of the constitution of India to the central power, which is utmost dangerous of Indianisation. As regard NEET exam we are not only loosing the state p...

Film songs are part of the Indian cultural life. The news about Ilayaraja’s assertion of copyright and sending notices to singers like SP Balasubramaiam (SPB) and KS Chitra to stop singing songs with his music have sent shock waves among film music lovers and to many singers whose livelihood depends on their freedom to perform film songs or its remakes. Leaving the moral issue aside, Ilayaraja’s action raises these important questions: Whether he has the legal right to stop public performance of songs with his music? Whether his copyright assertion eliminates the possibility of live performance of songs by other singers? Will his action assure him the expected revenue? Whether the Government of India has a role to protect the interest of music lovers and other performers? The first issue to be dealt with is based on the authorship of the song. The song includes musical work, lyrics and the sound of the singer, which is the performance, in which the composer himself is coined as t...

பொது உபயோகத்திற்கு தேவைப்படாத அரசு நிலங்களை வீடு இல்லாதவர்களுக்கு நிலமாக தருவது தான் வீட்டு மனை நில ஒப்படை ஆகும். வீட்டு மனைக்கான விண்ணப்பங்களை தாசில்தாரிடம் கொடுக்க வேண்டும். வீட்டில் உள்ள பெண் உறுப்பினர்களின் பெயரில் தான் வீட்டு மனை நில ஒப்படை வழங்கப்படும். வீட்டு மனை ஒப்படை வருவாய் நிலை ஆணை எண் 21ன் கீழ் வழங்கப்படுகிறது. முதலில் வீட்டு மனை இல்லாதவர்களை அரசு கிராம வாரியாக பிரித்துக் கொள்கிறது. வீட்டு மனை கேட்டு வரும் மனுக்களின் தகுதி அரசால் ஆராயப்பட்டு விதிகளுக்கு ஏற்ப முன்னுரிமை அடிப்படையில் ஒழுங்குபடுத்தப் படுகிறது. ஆட்சேபனையற்ற அரசு நிலங்களே அரசால் தேர்வு செய்யப்படுகிறது. தகுதியான நிலங்கள் தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்டு அவை நில அளவையர் மூலம் ப்ளாட்டுகளாக பிரிக்கப்பட்டு கற்கள் நடப்படுகிறது. யாருக்கு முன்னுரிமை :- வறுமை கோட்டிற்கு கீழ் உள்ளவர்களுக்கு முன்னுரிமை அளிக்கப்படும் தற்போதைய ஆண்டு வருமானம் கிராமப்புறங்களில் ரூ. 30,000/-க்கும் குறைவாக உள்ளவர்களுக்கும், நகர்ப்புறங்களில் ரூ. 50,000/-க்கு‌ம் குறைவாக உள்ளவர்களுக்கும் நில ஒப்படை வழங்கப்படும். மேலும் வீட்டு மனை கோரும் நபர்களுக்கு வே...

அரசு அச்சகத்துறைதான் பெயரை மாற்றுவதற்கான தகுதி பெற்ற அலுவலகம். இதன் அலுவலகம் சென்னை அண்ணா சாலையில் எல். ஐ. சிக்கு முன்பு அதாவது ஹிக்கின் பாதம்ஸுக்கு அருகில் உள்ளது. சென்னை அலுவலகத்தில் மட்டுமே உங்களது பெயரை மாற்றம் செய்ய இயலும். பெயர் மாற்றத்திற்கான படிவத்தை நீங்கள் அச்சகத்துறை அலுவலகத்தில் நேரிடையாகவோ அல்லது இணையதளம் மூலமாகவோ பெற்றுக் கொள்ளலாம். விண்ணப்பத்தில், விண்ணப்பதாரர் மட்டுமே கையொப்பம் இட வேண்டும் விண்ணப்பதாரர் மைனராக இருந்தால் வாரிசுதாரர் அல்லது பாதுகாவலர் கையொப்பம் இடலாம். தமிழ்நாடு அரசின் 'அ' மற்றும் 'ஆ' அலுவலர்கள் அல்லது நோட்டரி பப்ளிக் அல்லது மத்திய அரசு அலுவலர்களிடம் சாட்சியம் பெற வேண்டும். பெயர் மாற்ற அறிவிக்கை தமிழ்நாட்டை சேர்ந்தவர்களுக்கு மட்டுமே. அதற்கான உறுதிமொழியை உரிய இடத்தில் அளிக்க வேண்டும். பெயர் மாற்றத்திற்கான காரணம் தெரிவிக்க வேண்டும். பெயர் மாற்றக் கட்டணம் 09.02.2004 முதல் ரூ. 415 மட்டுமே. பணத்தை நேரிடையாகவோ, தபால் மூலமாகவோ செலுத்தலாம். தபால் மூலம் செலுத்தும் போது, உதவி இயக்குநர் (வெளியீடுகள்) எழுது பொர...