A Non Resident Indian (NRI) who have left India and/or are either staying abroad or have obtained the citizenship of a foreign country have their immovable properties and/or real estate in India. The said immovable properties or estates are in the form of either a joint ancestral property (which is being inherited) and self-acquired properties (which is/are self-purchased or self-owned) respectively.

In case of the self-purchased/self-owned properties there exists no problem with respect to any share and/or partition as the same is the absolute property of the person or the Non Resident Indian (NRI) in the present case whereas when the property is a jointly ancestral property which shall be inherited by all the legal heirs including the cognates and agnates and there has to be a share partition then there arises issues, disputes and problems.