Explanation:

Recently, the Supreme Court has expanded a Hindu woman’s right to be a joint legal heir and inherit ancestral property on terms equal to male heirs. A Hindu woman’s right to be a joint heir to the ancestral property is by birth and does not depend on whether her father was alive or not when the law was enacted in 2005. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 gave Hindu women the right to be coparceners or joint legal heirs in the same way a male heir does. The law also gave the daughter the same rights and liabilities “in the coparcenary property as she would have had if she had been a son”. The law applies to ancestral property and to intestate succession in personal property — where succession happens as per law and not through a will. Hence both statements are correct.