Notes & Updates
Plain-language notes on the property, family, criminal and business matters that come up most often — written for people navigating the Indian legal system, especially from abroad.
It's the question I hear first, before any detail about the property itself: "Will I need to come back for this?" For most NRIs, that single question decides whether a dispute gets addressed now or gets postponed for years — sometimes until it's harder to fix than it needed to be. The honest answer is that you almost certainly don't need to be there for most of it. But "almost certainly" isn't the same as "definitely," so it's worth being precise about what a Power of Attorney actually covers, and the narrow set of situations where it doesn't.
