Section 244: Not to be obliged to accept succession

1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Chapter, no person shall be obliged to accept a succession.

2) A person who declines to accept a succession shall give information thereof in writing to the concerned District Court within a period of three years of the devolution of succession.

3) If a person does not accept a succession within the period referred to in sub-section (2), such succession shall be deemed to have been devolved upon the other heir in the successive order of preference for succession.

4) Even if a person does not accept a succession pursuant to sub-section (1), he or she shall have to conduct obsequies of the deceased in accordance with the rites and rituals.