THIS MONTH’S DIGEST IS FOR FEMALES BORN IN A HINDU FAMILY AND NOW ARE COPARCENERS OF A HINDU UNDIVIDED FAMILY That The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 came into force on 9th September, 2005 and yet it is effective retrospectively as it applies to all female Hindus alike, upon coming into operation, irrespective of whether they are married or spinsters on that date and it also applies to partition suits filed before amendment but pending in trial courts on 9th September 2005. (Ganduri Koteshwaramma & Anr. vs. Chakiri Yanadi & Anr. (C.A. No. 8538 of 2011 (SC) dt.12-10-2011) That the Government of Maharashtra amended the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, by the Hindu Succession (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1994 and it is applicable only in the State of Maharashtra. It grants coparcenary rights to the daughter of a coparcener in.......