Excluding wife, kids does not invalidate Will, says Supreme Court: Why ‘natural heirs’ can’t claim property by default

Supreme Court property Will news: The Supreme Court has ruled that merely excluding a wife and children from inheritance cannot invalidate a Will, holding that a testator is free to depart from the normal line of succession if the document is otherwise genuine and legally proved, and upheld a 1983 Will executed in favour of a sister.

A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vijay Bishnoi was hearing an appeal filed by the wife and children of late B Sheena Nairi against a Karnataka High Court judgment which had upheld concurrent findings of the trial court and first appellate court recognising the validity of the Will executed in favour o

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