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Dear Client,

In India, legally converting a Backward Class (BC) certificate to a Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate is generally not possible. Caste is determined by birth, typically based on the father's caste, and is considered an inherent, unchangeable identity within the legal framework. Unlike religion, which can be changed, there are no legal provisions or formal processes to alter one's caste category, as caste certificates are merely official documents certifying an existing birth-assign

Dear Client,
Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, violence includes actual abuse or threat of abuse, whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, or economic. Under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005(PWDV), any woman who is, or has been in a domestic or family relationship with the persons and who have been subjected to domestic violence, can lodge an FIR against her ir him at the local police station for redressal of her grievance.

Dear Client,

To apply for an EWS (Economically Weaker Section) certificate, eligibility is generally determined by the total annual income of the family, which includes your income, your mother's income, and your brother's income if he is living with the family.

Since you mentioned that the consolidated income of you and your mother exceeds Rs. 8 lakh per annum, this would affect your eligibility for the EWS certificate. The term 'family' for EWS purposes includes you, your parents, and your

Dear Client,
An individual gets the right to ancestral property by birth. Typically, ancestral property refers to property that has been inherited for four or more generations and has not been divided or sold off. Grandfather's property is ancestral property in the hands of the grandchildren. After the amendment of the Hindu Succession Act in 2005, daughters, regardless of their marital status, were given the right to claim their share both in ancestral property and self-acquired property(if le

Dear Client,
Under Section 144 of BNSS, any person having sufficient means is liable to support his wife and children, provided she is unable to maintain herself. This support is provided by way of a fixed amount determined by a judicial magistrate, known as ‘maintenance’, once an application is filed by the aggrieved spouse seeking maintenance from her husband in the Family Court. The courts have also held that maintenance can be granted to the wife even if she is living separately from he

Dear Client,
The right to future maintenance typically ends with the death of the person who was entitled to receive it. In the event of a petitioner/beneficiary's death, the right to claim or receive maintenance typically does not survive unless the arrears of maintenance had already accrued before the death. The nominee is the trustee of the funds or properties of the deceased owner and is legally bound to transfer the properties to the legal heirs/beneficiaries of the deceased owner once the

Dear Sir,
At your risk you can marry the proposed girl who is within prohibited relationship. In these modern days nobody venture to lodge complaint against your marriage. If you are comfortable and confident then marry her.

Dear Client,

For central government employees in India, having a third child after becoming permanent generally does not lead to job termination. While some state governments have strict "two-child policies" that can disqualify individuals from recruitment or promotion, the Central Government's approach has historically focused on incentivizing small family norms through benefits like the now-abolished Family Planning Allowance, rather than penalizing existing employees with dismissal.

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Dear Client,
Your query lacks information and transparency to address it properly. After the amendment of the Hindu Succession Act in 2005, daughters, regardless of their marital status given the right to claim their share both in ancestral property and self-acquired property(if left intestate) of their parents. Your query does not indicate whether the property left by your grandfather is ancestral or self-acquired. In case of ancestral property, an individual gets the right to the said propert

Dear Client,
Section 13 of the Birth and Death Registration Act, 1969, deals with the delayed registration of the birth and death of any citizen. As per Sub-Section 3 of Section 13 of the said Act, any birth or death which has not been registered within one year of its occurrence, shall be registered only on an order made by a First Class Judicial Magistrate or a Presidency Magistrate after verifying the correctness of the birth or death and on payment of the prescribed fee. As per Sub-Section