Subsequent Adoption Can’t Divest Any Person Of Estate Vested In Him Or Her Prior To Adoption: SC [Read Judgment]

Adopted son would not divest any person in whom the property had been vested prior to adoption, the bench said.The Supreme Court in Saheb Reddy vs. Sharanappa, has reiterated the legal position that an adopted child cannot divest any person of any estate which was vested in him or her before the adoption.In the instant case, the property of one Sharnappa, upon his death in 1957, was vested in...