After the death of your brother your mother will become the only legal heir of his properties. More over the property was registered in your mother’s name, in such a situation your brother in law has no legal right over the property and he could not claim to demand the property to be registered on his son’s name.

Can I claim my brother property?

Advocate Rajeev Nigam Your brothers can claim share in your property but for that he has to proved that the property purchased was out of the family money.

When a brother dies without a will?

In general, if your sibling dies without a will, you will only inherit if your sibling has no living spouse, domestic partner, child, adopted child, grandchild, or parent. If that’s the case, then surviving siblings are given equal inheritance distributions.

Are Sisters legal heirs?

The legal heir in the following case are, Father and mother. Brothers and sisters (other than half brothers and sisters) lineal descendants of such of them as shall have predeceased the intestate. Widows or widowers of deceased lineal descendants of the intestate who have not married again before death of the intestate.

What happens to my brother’s assets if he dies?

Your brother’s assets will be inherited by his siblings, but his parents (if living) have the use of the assets during their lifetimes. There is not much detail in you message about assets and liabilities.

How are assets distributed when family member dies?

If there is evidence to prove who had actually died first, then the assets of the person who died first will be distributed first, before the assets of the person who died later.

How are assets distributed in case of simultaneous death?

If there is medical evidence to prove who actually died first, then that person will be considered as having died first. Duh.?But if it’s impossible to tell who died first, the law presumes that the older person died first. The order of death is important as it dictates whose assets will be distributed first.

What happens to a deceased person’s money and possessions?

The personal representative then distributes the deceased’s person’s assets (money, possessions and property) in accordance with the law, the will – if there is one – or the laws of intestacy if there is no will. These assets are described as the deceased person’s estate.