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Children's advancements not brought into hotchpot. -Where a distributive share in the property of a person who has died intestate is claimed by a child, or any descendant of a child, of such person, no money or other property which the intestate may, during his life, have paid, given or settled to, or for the advancement of, the child by whom or by whose descendant the claim is made shall be taken into account in estimating such distributive share. CHAPTER III Special Rules for Parsi Intestates 1*50. General principles relating to intestate succession.-For the purpose of intestate succession among Parsis-- (a) there is no distinction between those who were actually born in the lifetime of a person deceased and those who at the date of his death were only conceived in the womb, but who have been subsequently born alive; (b) a lineal descendant of an intestate who has died in the lifetime of the intestate without leaving a widow or widower or any lineal descendant or 2*[a widow or widower of any lineal descendant] shall not be taken into account in determining the manner in which the property of which the intestate has died intestate shall be divided; and (c) where a 2*[widow or widower of any relative] of an intestate has married again in the lifetime of the intestate, 2*[such widow or widower shall not be entitled to receive any share of the property of which the intestate has died Collected by the All India Christian Council, www.christiancouncil.in Page 14 of 123 intestate, and 2*[such widow or widower] shall be deemed not to be existing at the intestate's death. 3*51. Division of intestate's property among widow, widower, children and Parents. -(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the property of which a Parsi dies intestate shall be divided,-- (a) where such Parsi dies leaving a widow or widower and children, among the widow or widower, and children so that the widow or widower and each child receive equal shares; (b) where such Parsi dies leaving children, but no widow or widower, among the children in equal shares. (2) Where a Parsi dies leaving one or both parents in addition to children or widow or widower and children, the property of which such Parsi dies intestate shall be so divided that the parent or each of the parents shall receive a share equal to half the share of each child."]. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Subs. by Act 17 of 1939, s. 2, for the original ss. 50-56 (w.e.f. 12-6-1939). 2 Subs. by Act 51 of 1991, s. 2. 3 Subs. by s. 3, ibid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------