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Daughters Entitled to Inherit Fathers' Self Acquired Properties in Absence of Will: SC

MAS Team 21 January 2022
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In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court (SC) said the daughters of a male Hindu, dying intestate, would be entitled to inherit the self-acquired...

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SC backs Parents Transferring Property to ‘Caring Children’

MAS Team 14 September 2019
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If parents transfer property to an offspring who took care of them in old age, it cannot be assumed that the individual exerted undue influence on...

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Nominations under Companies Act can’t displace law of succession, says Bombay High Court

MAS Team 14 July 2015
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Nominations under the Companies Act cannot displace the law of succession or open a third line of succession, the Bombay High Court held

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HC: Only legal heirs, not nominees will own deceased’s investments

MAS Team 11 April 2015
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Justice Gautam Patel declared the much referred to Kokate judgement per incuriam, which means ‘through lack of care’

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High Court raps woman who filed pleas over 20 years

MAS Team 06 February 2015
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The Bombay High Court has put a stop to her litigations of a Sion resident aged 64 years, who filed a number of petitions over the property of Deepak...

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Unregistered gift deeds not valid, rules HC

MAS Team 14 November 2014
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Gift deeds will be valid only after they have been registered, the stamp duty is paid, and all other formalities are completed, the Bombay High Court...

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HC strikes down state policy that discriminated against married daughters

MAS Team 18 August 2014
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The Bombay High Court has struck down a discriminatory state policy that prevented “married daughters“ from seeking transfer of a retail...

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Daughters can inherit property held by joint family, rules HC

MAS Team 16 August 2014
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The Act granted daughters in a Hindu joint family the same right of inheritance as that of a son

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HDFC Securities launches 'e-Will' writing service

MAS Team 21 July 2014
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Preparing a Will is just a click away as brokerage firm HDFC Securities has launched 'e-Will' writing service

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25th Sept 2020
 
Greetings from Moneylife Advisory Services
 
Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
As a result of these changes, IAs, cannot accept fees through credit cards, will have to sign a 26-clause investor agreement, have to maintain physical record written & signed by client, telephone recording, emails, SMS messages and any other legally verifiable record for five years. IAs were already asked to record the suitability and rationale for every piece of advice given, sign them and store them for five years.
 
While these extensive and frequent changes, designed to strengthen the conduct of IAs are well-meaning, these have sharply increased compliance efforts and cost. We, being online advisors, find many of changes harder to implement, compared to advisors working in the physical space. We will have to have an army of advisors, administrative and tech staff to be compliant. If we do this, we will have to divert money to these areas and the cost of our service will double. We want to remain the least-cost service in the market to benefit more and more people. In the circumstances, we are forced to change our business model from “advisory” to “research”. This will mean the following:
 
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