Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in India
my father in law has left a will bequeathing the entire house in which we are living out of love and affection for her daughter. After his death we invested lot of money for renovation,etc.Suddenly my wife died of cancer.I now find that my father-in-law has specified in the will that half of the property should be given to my daughter i.e to his grand daughter.and the other half to daughter of my sister-in-law.The latter is staying in chennai and she wants to sell her portion on which we inadvertently invested lot of money. Besides the main water sources and stair case is in the other portion while the drainage flows through the portion given to us.
My question is whether it open to my father -in-law to specify how the property should devolve once he bequeathed the entire property to my wife ? (2) What should I do now as it is virtually impossible for me to live in the other portion if the ? (3) what are the options open to me to protect the property after having invested so much money on the entire house ?
1 Answer from Attorneys
he can change the will in his life time
his will wuld be enforceable only after his death so if the latest division is between your's and your's sister in law 's daughter than it wuld be the final one .
though u can recover the amount invested by filing a suit or mutually settling the issue
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