8.5 Reunion of Families

The concept (punar-milan): the separated family's reconstitution — the separated coparceners rejoining kitchen and property, the joint family reborn; The old Ain's design: the reunion-and-re-merger rules — the reunited family's jointness revived (the earlier partition's accounts re-merged; the manager's office restored), with the formalities of the reunion's record; The modern position: the Code's partition regime doesn't bar reunion — the parties may re- blend their separated shares (by agreement, and again by deed where immovables re- commune); the property consequences: the re-created jointness presumed from the re- established common kitchen-and-fund (the presumption reversing the separation's proof); The practice's rarity — and its exam relevance: sociologically rare (re-merged households carry the memory of the division), but doctrinally important: reunion shows partition's reversibility-in-consent (contrast the divorce-reunion of Unit 4 — the Code's family- reconciliation theme), and it polices the anti-evasion questions (the reunion to defeat a creditor's or a wife's claim — the courts' scrutiny). Exam Focus Long questions: (i) Concept and definition of partition (the severance + allotment; the three "NOT s" — not destruction, not transfer, not mere kitchen-separation); (ii) Ancestral/ joint/personal property + coparceners' rights (the table + the five incidents — write "sons AND daughters" for the equal-share rule); (iii) Proceeding of partition (the two routes end-to-end: deed → registration → Malpot; petition → reconciliation → inventory →…