The document discusses the legal rights of married women in India. It notes that under the Married Women's Property Act (MWP), all property belonging to a woman is protected from any claims on her husband's assets, including court attachments. The key rights discussed include: a woman's earnings being her separate property; insurance under MWP benefiting the wife and children; and a married woman's ability to take legal action under the Indian Succession Act. The document also outlines the process for taking out a life insurance policy under MWP to designate the wife and children as beneficiaries.

2. National Commission forNational Commission for
WomenWomen
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource PersonResource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru PrasadProfessor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI TMF,
(PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36

3. • Under MWP Act all the properties that belong
to the women gets insulated and protected
from all the other court attachments or any
income tax department attachments that the
husband has run up. (STREE DHANAM)
• 1. Married women’s Earnings to be their
separate Property.
• 2. Insurance under MWP is for the benefit of
Wife and children.
• 3. Married women may take legal Proceedings
under Indian succession Act, 1865

4. 4. Husband’s liability for wife’s Ante
nuptial debts.
5. Wife’s liability for Postnuptial debts.
6. Extent of Husband’s liability for wife’s
breach of trust or devastation.
7.Married women may effect Insurance
policy of the Husband

5. • The process of taking the policy under MWP is very
simple. At the time of making an application one
has to fill in MWP addendum.
• This form is also provided by life insurance
companies. In the form one has to fill in the details
of his wife and children, whoever he wishes to make
beneficiaries in the policy.
• In case of death, the policy proceeds do not go to
anybody else other than the beneficiary as named
by you in the policy. There is no attachment
because the policy does not belong to the husband.

6. National Commission forNational Commission for
WomenWomen
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource PersonResource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru PrasadProfessor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI TMF,
(PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36

7. National Commission forNational Commission for
WomenWomen
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource PersonResource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru PrasadProfessor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI TMF,
(PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36