Joint Family

Dr. Mamta Rana

Associate Professor
 Meaning of Joint Family
It consists of all persons lineally descended from
a common ancestor and includes their wives,
widows and unmarried daughters.
 Members of Joint Family

• Those who are lineally connected in the male

line.
• Collaterals
• Relatives by adoption
• Poor dependents
• Son born out of a Hindu Man and a Woman
under Special Marriage Act
• The wife , widow & maiden daughter
 Types of Joint Family
• Mitakshara Joint Family
• Dayabhaga Joint Family
 Mitakshara Joint Family
Mitakshara owes its name to Vijnaneshwara’s
commentary on the Yajnavalkya smriti by the
name of Mitakshara. The school prevails in the
whole of India except Bengal and Assam.
 Dayabhaga Joint Family
• Applicable in the State of Bengal and Assam
• Jamutvahana,the author of dayabhaga that no
joint family in this school in the sense exists.
 Joint Family
Mitakshara Joint Family
• Coparcenary by birth
• Coparcenary comes into
existence on the birth of son
• Fluctuation of interest
• No defined shares
• Blood relationship or rule of
propinquity
• Female as coparcener after
Amendment Act (2005)
• Right of survivorship
• Limited power of karta over
property
Dayabhaga Joint Family
• Coparcenary after death
• Coparcenary comes into
existence on the death of father
• No fluctuation of interest
• Defined shares
• Principle of religious efficacy
• Female as coparcener
• Property devolves by
succession
• Absolute power of karta over
property
Thanks