This was however misinterpreted in the case of being non-applicable to women whose father weren’t alive in 2005, at the time of the amendment. Only those daughters were provided an equal right whose fathers were alive when the amendment came into force in September 2005 – according to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act. Numerous conflicting views on the issue were put forward for the Indian judiciary courts to examine. Therefore, another announcement by the court set all things straight – the rulings stated that a coparcener’s legal rights flow since being born in the family. Whether alive or dead, it was no more a matter of judgment relating to inheritance. It was clearly declared that women hold equal rights to property even if they were born prior to the 2005 amendment. If a situation of woman’s death is faced, her share must be passed on to her children equally.

In the years 2016 and 2018, few conflicting rulings were presented by the court due to varying interpretations of the Act. On 11 August 2020, the Supreme Court of India finally bolstered Hindu women’s right to be an equal joint legal heir to inherit ancestral property. The law allows a daughter to have the same rights and liabilities in the coparcenary property as it would have happened if she were a son. Justice Arun Kumar Mishra, the head of a three-judge bench, commented while the declaration “Once a daughter, always a daughter; son is a son till he is married.” The bench also pronounced “The daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality conferred upon them by Section 6. Hence, we request that the pending matters be decided, as far as possible, within six months.”