Section 20
Interests and powers not acquired nor lost by marriage.
The Indian Succession Act, 1925
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the law applicable to intestate and testamentary succession.
(1) No person shall, by marriage,
acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries or become incapable of doing
any act in respect of his or her own property which he or she could have done if unmarried.
(2) This section--
shall not apply to any marriage contracted before, the first day of January, 1866;
shall not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any marriage, one or both of the parties to which professed at the time of the marriage the Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion.
(2) This section--
shall not apply to any marriage contracted before, the first day of January, 1866;
shall not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any marriage, one or both of the parties to which professed at the time of the marriage the Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion.