Legal questions on Property Law

Property shares when Redevelopment done

Hello Sir, i am resident of Mumbai, we are 3 members in family mother father and myself. I have one question regarding property dispute which is located at South Mumbai. The property was in Pagdi system earlier but 3 years Back it was developed and completed in 2017. My grandmother was alive till 2016 and we have made the agreement with builder in 2 names I.e. 1st name - Grand Mother and 2nd - ...

Registered and unregistered will

A registered will was executed by my mother during March 1993 to have equal share to me (daughter) and to my husband on her property, which purchased by her. My mother expired on 20.11.1998. After her death, the schedule in the registered will was given effect from 21.11.1998. My husband died on intestate 20.08.2000. Subsequent to this, my First and Second son produced a unregistered will signe...

Dispute

Dear sir, We were joint family , I was student and my father was retired person ( with No balance). My elder brother started working and took care of my education and family expenses. My elder brother working in abroad, with his money he brought a plot on my fathers name and built a house ( still property name on fathers name). In mean time he also brought another house on his name and recen...

Flat Sale Fraud

I had purchased a flat in Mumbai in the year 2016 with all legal procedure including obtaining society NOC, Stamp duty payment, municipal registration, Society maintenance bill payment, electricity meter installed under my name. 10 months after my purchase I got a notice from the bank saying that the 1st owner had sold the flat to their customer in 2015 and as their customer did not pay the loa...

How do I get my broker to mind his own business?

I'm a 23 year old male bachelor and I rent an apartment with my friend (also 23) in Mumbai. My girlfriend usually visits me and stays over for weekends. A few days ago, the broker who helped me get this place told me that someone had complained to the police regarding my girlfriend coming over, and apparently the police went to the broker instead of coming to me. He says that I've to make chang...

Can builder incorporate and impose company for maintenance on flat owners??

Hello sir, The builder in our MOFA registered agreement had clearly stated he would be registering a society within one year of OC and that he will do the conveyance deed within 36 months of registration of society. Our housing complex consists of 5 wings - 376 flats. Its been 5 yrs since we got possession and despite repeated request the builder kept us in the dark about society registra...

Right of Private Way

I have a small piece of land, which is being used as a path by a family to their home for the last many years. The path is actually going through the middle of the property. I have been having no objection in using that way till now. Now I want to sell this property. But the people interested are concerned about the path, since the property is literally useless because of it. I would like to kn...

Plot missing from LR khatian

Hi, my name is Syed Ahmed, I am staying in Siliguri, West Bengal. My query is my grandfather has a land or piece of parcel, measuring 3.78 acre of land , recorded in RS record of rights ( khatian), my grandfather died sometime in the year 1969. After that his elder son ( my uncle ) look in the entire property or land .. and in that land some people used to cultivate and whereas in few plots it...

Availing Loan on an unregistered property and subsequent registration

Dear Sir , I am planning to purchase a property in Maharashtra. The sequence of transactions is as given below : The developer sold a property to 1st buyer in the year 1988 . The 1st buyer got deceased in the year 1992. The legal heirs of the deceased person relinquished their rights in favour of their mother i,e the widow of the 1st buyer. The widow of the 1st buyer sold the flat to the 2n...

Second Marriage and step sister rights in property

Hello Sir, My father is passed away recently (Oct-2017) and his second wife is asking for some compensation which i'm ready to give on humanitarian basis. before giving anything to her i want to make sure that should not legally affect me on long term. what kind of agreement can i make for removing their rights from the property?. here is some basic information about my family. First wife(my ...

How can i recover money from builder

My dad has given 5 lakhs advance through cheque payment to a builder regarding sale of property and written "Agreement to sell" on 9th jan 2015 on a 100/- non judicial stamp paper which was not registered with the registrar but was signed by the builder. It was not known to us till he expired on 14th march 2015 and we are not willing to take the flat which was agreed to take by my father and we...

Builder not handing over OC in the name of dues

Hi, I booked a flat in Bangalore and got the possession in 2014. The builder got the OC from BBMP and distributed it to most of the owners except some in the name of dues. When I checked with him, he(builder's manager) said there is XX amount pending, when I checked my accounts, he had missed adding one cheque's information in his account. I mailed him all the cheques no and clearance da...

GPA from Seller to Builder

Dear Sir, We are planning to purchase an apartment from a builder who has built the apartment on a sold land. The land belonged to a Mr.X who has divided the land between 4 of this children in parts (schedules). The schedule 3 and schedule 4 belong to three of the children of X - A, B and C. This is the part of the land on which the apartment is built. The seller side of the property on the ...

Eviction tenant urgent Landlord Ill

Sir please help. My father is a dialysis patient for past six years. He gave to rent to our ground floor to a person on the basis of verbal agreement on 2016 . The man said his flat is being built. But after two months we got to know from local sources it was a lie. And people from his past locality started coming claiming lot of money. This man continued to pay rent in cash. Last year april my...

Ancestral property

Hello My grand father have 3 sons and 1 daughter First son that is my father have 2 sons that is me and my younger brother Second son that is my uncle one has 2 kids, 1 daughter and one son Third son that is my second uncle has 2 daughters Daughter of my grandfather that is my aunt had 2 kids 1 deceased and one alive Now my question is My grandfather inherited land and home from his anc...

Transfer of property after death

The residential flat in question was originally purchased 20 years back. 25% share in my grandfather's name 25% share in my grandmother's name and 50% in my father's name. My grandmother is still alive.. My grandfather died 6 years back. He had made a will where he had entitled my father and my mother to take ownership of his 25% share in the said property after his death. My father has 2 siste...

Regarding land

There is a land of 28 sqft attached to our homw which is owned by a lady. We are not sure whether she has land documents or not. She never took care of the land. She never paid tax for that land as well. We are looking to purchase it. As it is a less quantity we are offering her 50k. However she wants to sell for 15k/1sqft which becomes 4 lakhs 25 thousand and we can't afford this much amount. ...

Question related to gifted agricultural land.

It is a pretty long query and sorry for taking much of your time on behalf of my friend. To start with my friend purchased an agricultural land consisting of 1 acre and 39 guntas in the year 2004. This property was sold by a lady through a registered sale deed in sira sub registrar office in which the lady, her husband and all the kids have signed with their photographs affixed. The seller got ...

Query in regards to pagdi system laws

We were staying in pagdi system in santacruz east. our building went for redevelopment in the year 2010. The landlord had made agreement asking us to stay as tenants even after redevelopment. Accordingly to the new law , As per Development Control Rules 33(7) of Mumbai, in the case of cess building, every tenant who is having less than 300 sq ft carpet area shall be given minimum of 300 sq ft ...

RIghtful owner / possibility for ownership of house.

Sir, I stay in a rented house (chawl) since 1984 in kalyan district. My owner (landlady) expired four years ago without any will and also she has no legal heir (She has a informally adopted daughter "Mrs. Y"). since then we are paying rent to her relative "Mr.X" (Landlady's husband's brother) who is also a landlord of chawl next to my chawl. We asked him to provide some papers specifying his ...