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Calisto DeSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on February 08, 2003: > > Gender mainstreaming in inheritance laws exists only in genetics. Civil > laws enacted the world over are either matriarchal or, more generally, > patriarchal in nature. Either the sons or the daughters inherit family > properties. It is only in Goa that both sons and daughters have equal > share in the property of their parents, on the death of either or both. > It is rather peculiar that the vision enshrined in the Article 44 of the > Constitution of Independent India finds its fulfillment in a law enacted > during the colonial era in Goa. > How can anyone say that "it is only in Goa that both sons and daughters have equal share in the property of their parents, on the death of either or both", when it is fact that the civil code in force in Goa was enacted by the Portuguese and a revised - more updated - version is in force in Portugal? In Portugal, not only sons and daughters have equal right of inheritance to their parents' property, but husband and wife have equal responsibility within the family- the husband no longer holds the position of sole "chefe de familia". And, if I am not mistaken, all the other seven Portuguese-speaking countries have similar family laws. Jorge
