7 days ago
DLSA reunites woman with her estranged daughter
The Thiruvananthapuram District Legal Services Authority (TDLSA) has reunited a mother with her daughter after a dispute kept them apart for a decade.
The petitioner, a septuagenarian, said one of her three daughters had not visited her and other family members for nearly 10 years.
Family dispute
A family dispute had led the daughter, a divorcee, to leave the house of her parents. Since then, there had been no communication between them in any form.
The case was taken up by senior civil judge and DLSA secretary S. Shamnad under the Kerala State Legal Services Authority's Harmony Hub scheme. On Monday, the mother and daughter came together and spoke. Also present were the woman's other daughters and a child of her estranged daughter.
The mother said ₹25,000 each she had deposited in the name of her daughter's two children had matured in 2021. She handed over the fixed deposit certificates to her daughter. The mother also agreed to give ₹7 lakh to her daughter as the latter's share of funds, though her daughter was not initially willing to accept it. The money will be deposited in a nationalised bank at Vellayambalam.
