New Delhi, March 26 -- Our only brother is refusing to part with any share in the HUF property of our deceased father, who passed away in 2009. Our Mother also passed away later on. I was born in 1959 and my sister was born in 1950. My father used to file the ITR for the HUF and pay taxes. Are we sisters with the above date of birth entitled to claim a share in assets of our father's HUF?

Before the amendment of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, in 2005, daughters were not treated as coparceners in the HUF, of which they were members by being born into the family. However, the 2005 amendment to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, which came into effect on 9 September 2005, grants daughters equal rights to coparcenary property, mak...