NRI Legal Services

Succession Certificate: Making Inheritance More Meaningful : Inheritance is understood to be a naturally smooth flowing process, and a lot of people are not even aware of the relevance of the ‘Succession Certificate.' It is a known fact that a majority of the inheritance issues get covered under the Hindu Succession Act. Some that are related to the minorities are taken

All partitions needn’t be sad stories - Partition of Property : There are times that an NRI is the co-owner with somebody, in a property. By itself this might not be a problem; but sometimes, this leads to property disputes taking place. Usually the scenario would be that the other person would be seeking major control or manage or even try and sell the property

Unaccounted deposits could face 50% tax, 4 Years lock-in period : No less than 50 percent tax could be levied on inexplicable bank deposits made when using banned currency notes around December 30, 2016 including a four-year lock-in period for One half of the remaining amount underneath the amendments to tax law the government plans to usher in Parliament shortly. However, a greater 90 percent

Demonetisation Do's and Don'ts: Govt Announces Operational Measures : After about fifteen days of the Demonetisation process, the Government finally announced some measures on an operational level so that there is clarity about the usage of the old versus new notes – as also the exchange of the notes. Significantly, the following are noteworthy points: There will be no over the counter

Criminal Litigation Against NRIs and Overseas Citizens : 'A DAY IN PRISON IS LONGER THAN A THOUSAND YEARS” – DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN TO YOU!!!! A huge number of our NRI clients come to us because of false litigation initiated against them. Most of these charges are either unfounded or baseless. To top it all NRIs have to be fearful of coming to

Landlord-Tenant Dispute- Tales that Never End! : Eviction of tenants is one of the most frequently queries that we handle from NRIs. Landlord-Tenant disputes are not limited to local levels only. In the case of NRI properties, the matter always becomes worse because people can take undue advantage of the absence of overseas citizens. Most NRIs have no option but to give

Demonetisation Myths and Rumours : Whenever major sweeping changes are made in an existing system, some myths and rumours are bound to be floated around too - partly because of the ignorance of the masses and partly because of a tendency of a section of people to create confusion and panic. The Modi government’s recent Demonetization move is no