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UContext- My father has two younger sisters, who are all in their 60’s. One of the sister is unmarried and the other one is divorced and has a daughter (married). My father has been based in the gulf for the past 40 years and my grandmother, grandfather and both my aunts lived back home. In 1994 he purchased a house and gifted it to my paternal grandmother (she was the owner of the house), in 2010 she created a will, where she stated that my dad has full ownership of the house after her death.
In April 2012, she changed the will, possibly by being coerced by my aunts and she changed the ownership of the house to equal parts among all three siblings.
None of them have informed us of this, in 2022 my grandmother passed away and my aunts continued to live in that house. In 2024, my dad decided to sell the house and relocating the aunts to some other place, but then my aunt hands him the updated will, which now divides the house among all 3 of them. For context none of my aunts have ever earned a single rupee, they’ve been taken care of by my dad all their life and for the past 13 years nobody has informed us about the will changes. They are now not agreeing to sell their house because they’re equal owners according to the latest will.Would like to know the next possible steps that we
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(just an assumption) maybe your father did it to save some tax money as is the law in our country that less tax and stamp duty applied for women owners. And then the will to get it back after her death. And many families use it to save money.
Anyway, if you cannot prove the coercion I dont think there’s much that can be done. Wills can be contested but in this case your father gifted it to her. So now technically it’s upto her whom she gives it and whom she doesn’t.
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KNAL. This is sad and is very common. Leaves a bad taste with the grand children. Basically what that grand mother has done is to be hated permanently on the father’s side.
It sometimes get worse were the father dies and the grand mother uses her bias against the daughter in law and unfairly helps her other progenies.
Women/mothers/wives are not gods. They are as crappy in their behavior as others. Only when the shoe is in the wrong foot that the sons and their children feel the pain.
I have seen families where one son has earned everything and contributed to a flat in Mumbai. The other son has contributed bare minimum. The other son puts his wife’s name on the flat as well with the excuse of getting gas connection and 10 years later demand 66 percent of the flat. Fuckers.
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ALawyer here.
Few questions:
1. Whether the first will was registered will?
2. First will was altered or a new will was created?
3. Second will is registered or not?-
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U1. Yes it was.
2. First will was altered, from my dad being the sole inheritor to all 3 of them being equal owners.
3. Yes, second will is registered
4. She suffered from mental illness all her life, but it’ll be hard to prove anything, because we live in a small town and I doubt she’s ever been to psychiatrist. -
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