Litigation

Property Right of widow: A widow may get separated at any time by taking her partition share. If a widow concludes another marriage, the property obtained by her by way of partition share shall transfer on the son and daughter, if there is no such a son or daughter, she herself may retain such property. The widow rights to property is violation of this provision on the basis of second marriage, her portion of property should be guaranteed by law if she gets second marriage or not. FWLD, CWAD and WHR jointly had filed the writ/petition in the Supreme Court of Nepal for the protection and promotion of the right of widow guaranteed by the International Convention and National legal framework. The litigation is registered into the Supreme Court of Nepal and first hearing is in the month of May, 2020 and the final verdict is not come from the court yet. The writ has been filed for the protection of property rights of single women which she has to be returned to her children if she gets second marriage.