CHANGE OF RELIGION -SUCCESSION

SEC. 26 OF HINDU SUCCESSION ACT - CONVERSION TO ANOTHER RELIGION- DISQUALIFICATION TO INHERIT TO PROPERTY OF A HINDU -A PERSON WHO REMAINED AS A HINDU , WHEN SUCCESSION OPENS, NOT DISQUALIFIED TO INHERIT THE PROPERTY OF HINDU, EVEN THOUGH HE CONVERTS TO ANOTHER RELIGION SUBSEQUENTLY - SON MARRYING A MUSLIM WOMEN AFT ER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER- SON ENTITLED TO A SHARE IN JOINT FAMILY PROPERTY AS HE REMAINED TO BE HINDU WHEN HIS FATHER DIED-SEC. 26 WHERE BEFORE OR AFTER THEIS ACT, A HINDU HAS CEASED OR CEASES TO BE A HINDU BY CONVERSION TO ANOTHER RELIGION, CHILDREN BORN TO HIM, OR HER, AFTER SUCH CONVERSION AND THEIR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE RELATIVES, UNLESS SUCH CHILDREN OR DESCENDANTS ARE HINDUS AT THE TIME WHEN THE SUCCESSION OPENS. CONVERTED HINDU, CONVERTED HINDU CHILDREN AND THEIR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM INHERITING THE PROPERTY OF ANY OF THEIR HINDU RELATIVES, UNLESS SUCH CHILDREN OR DESCENDANTS ARE HINDUS AT THE TIME WHEN THE SUCCESSION OPENS -1996[3] ALT 659.