8.3 Proceeding of Partition

Route 1 — Partition by agreement (the family's own act): The family's meeting of minds — the coparceners (and the guardian for minors, with the court's protection of the minor's share); The deed of partition (ansha-banda): the parties, the property schedule, the shares and allotments, the liabilities' apportionment, the signatures and witnesses; Registration — the deed registered at the local level; the immovable property's registration at the Land Revenue (Malpot) office — the lalpurja re-issued in the separated names, the kitta-napi mechanics; The unregistered deed's effect: obligations yes, ownership-transfers no — the registration rule's consequence (Prem Prasad Timilsina v. Ramananda Timilsina, NKP 2075, D.N. 10035: the unregistered household-separation paper insufficient for legal partition). Route 2 — Partition by decree (the court's act): The petition by any coparcener (the demand-right) to the district court — jurisdiction, the parties, the joint property's description; The reconciliation attempt (the family-dispute procedure's first stage — Unit 10); The inventory — the assets-and-liabilities schedule (lands by kitta, movables, receivables, debts) — the anti-concealment device (the omitted property's reopening on after-discovery); Valuation and shares — the equal-share computation, the special allotments (the jethan seniority shares of the old law now abolished; the compensations for improvements; the debts- and-advances adjusted); The allotment — physical division, or sale-and-distribution where indivisible, or the alternating arrangements; the minors' and absentees' shares…