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National Commission for Women

Nation wide Program for


Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI TMF,
(PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36
puttuvvit@gmail.com
Under MWP Act all the properties that belong
to the women gets insulated and protected
from all the other court attachments or any
income tax department attachments that the
husband has run up. (STREE DHANAM)
1. Married womens Earnings to be their
separate Property.
2. Insurance under MWP is for the benefit of
Wife and children.
3. Married women may take legal Proceedings
under Indian succession Act, 1865
4. Husbands liability for wifes Ante
nuptial debts.
5. Wifes liability for Postnuptial debts.
6. Extent of Husbands liability for wifes
breach of trust or devastation.
7.Married women may effect Insurance
policy of the Husband
The process of taking the policy under MWP is very
simple. At the time of making an application one
has to fill in MWP addendum.
This form is also provided by life insurance
companies. In the form one has to fill in the details
of his wife and children, whoever he wishes to make
beneficiaries in the policy.
In case of death, the policy proceeds do not go to
anybody else other than the beneficiary as named
by you in the policy. There is no attachment because
the policy does not belong to the husband.
National Commission for Women

Nation wide Program for


Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI TMF,
(PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36

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