LawgistThe Hindu Succession Act
26Convert’s descendants disqualified
Where, before or after the commencement of this Act, a Hindu has ceased or ceases to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion, children born to him or her after such conversion and their descendants shall be disqualified from inheriting the property of any of their Hindu relatives, unless such children or descendants are Hindus at the time when the succession opens.
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General provisions relating to succession
- 18 Full blood preferred to half blood
- 19 Mode of succession of two or more heirs
- 20 Right of child in womb
- 21 Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths
- 22 Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases
- 23 Omitted
- 24 Omitted
- 25 Murderer disqualified
- 26 Convert’s descendants disqualified
- 27 Succession when heir disqualifie
- 28 Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualif
