Family and legal guides

Reviewed on: 2026-06-12.

Family events change your paperwork, and the paperwork rarely keeps up. A marriage or a divorce means a name correction that UIDAI may reject for want of the right proof. A new child needs Aadhaar, and enrolment fails over a small mismatch with the birth certificate. A separation turns a child's passport application into a consent battle between parents. A death in the family starts the hardest set of all: nominee claims that banks sit on, locker access that gets delayed for months, survivorship claims on joint accounts that branches wrongly refuse, and farmland that stays in the deceased's name because mutation never moves.

This category collects those guides in one place. The common thread is proving family status to an authority: who you are after a name change, who your child's parents are, and who succeeds whom after a death. Each guide names the exact proof the rules accept, because most rejections happen when an official demands a document the rules never required.

Two boundaries keep this category clean. Criminal and court paperwork, such as FIR and certified copies, lives in courts, police and legal documents. Property disputes beyond inheritance mutation live in the property and land guides.

• Aadhaar name correction rejected after marriage or divorce
• Child Aadhaar enrolment rejected over a birth certificate mismatch
• Child passport consent dispute after separation or divorce
• Nominee claim on a deceased person's account delayed
• Locker access delayed after the locker holder's death
• Bank refuses a survivorship claim on a joint account
• Inheritance mutation of agricultural land delayed

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