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title: "Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005: Key Points"
description: "The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 made daughters equal coparceners by birth in joint family property, ending male-only inheritance under Section 6."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 made daughters coparceners by birth in Hindu joint family property, granting them equal rights and liabilities with sons.
- Does a daughter need her father to have been alive on 9 September 2005 to claim coparcenary rights?
- What partitions are protected from the daughter's coparcenary claim?
- Does the 2005 amendment apply to agricultural land?
- How does coparcenary differ from testamentary succession under the Act?

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## Timeline

1. 5 September 2005

   The 2005 amendment, which received presidential assent on and came into force on 9 September 2005, rewrote Section 6 to abolish this gender discrimination.

2. 9 September 2005

   The 2005 amendment, which received presidential assent on 5 September 2005 and came into force on , rewrote Section 6 to abolish this gender discrimination.

3. 20 December 2004

   A critical limiting clause appears in the proviso to Section 6(1) and in Section 6(5): the amendment does not affect or invalidate any partition or testament…

4. 11 August 2020

   Rakesh Sharma\*\* (), in which a three-judge bench led by Justice Arun Mishra held that the daughter's right is by birth and is unobstructed heritage, so the c…

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In Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma (11 August 2020), the Supreme Court held that daughters are coparceners by birth regardless of whether their father was alive on 9 September 2005.

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