Under law each owner of a joint property has an equal right of ownership over it. However, these rights might not be physically demarcated to set separated boundaries defining shares of the individual owners of such a property which leads to disputes that can only be avoided if the individual share of inherited property is defined clearly amongst the owners. Please note that inherited properties include residential, commercial, ancestral. Thus, for an NRI to manage and perform partition of such an inherited property becomes extremely complex as they are not present in the country to look after the property, plus the multifaceted laws and its procedures related to property partition doesn’t make the process any easy. NRIs often find themselves trapped in the tedious paperwork, vulnerability to deceiving private personnels and management of legalities from abroad.
