Posts

Showing posts from June 27, 2017

Property Evaluation and Contesting a Will

This could very well pass off as the saga of relationships, confusions and chaotic disputes. Hemraj Vatsyan's father Dwarka Dass had two wives. His first marriage with Kamla Dass ended up in a divorce and he then married Jagminder Kaur. He had three sons from his first wife-and then adopted a girl, Peggy. Later after his divorce when he remarried, he had a son from his second wife. During his life time, he had accumulated properties near Amritsar and under the natural succession principal all his children would have inherited. However, in the year 2010, he made a new will in which he disowned his first wife, their three sons and the adopted daughter. Under this will, all his property was to be handed over to his son from the second marriage, Dilraj. Since Dilraj was still a minor, it was stated that nobody could sell the property till Dilraj would become a major. In addition nobody could take guardianship of Dilraj. There was another angle to the entire situat