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That is why she silently accepted the seven-month delay even though government officials have to issue a legal heirship certificate within a week. more-inMaduraiP.
Dhanalakshmi (85) of North Masi Street never thought that she would have to get a legal heirship certificate after her husband’s death four decades ago. The Tahsildar said that he had issued such 60 legal heirship certificates with long delays, the oldest was for someone who had died in 1968, in the last nine months. When she wanted to share the ancestral property, which was in the name of her mother-in-law, among her five children, she found that legal heirship certificate was a must. People in need of legal heirship certificates need to apply giving details of the legal heirs with a copy of death certificate of the person (father or mother) along with some proof of identity with the Taluk office concerned..