In order to prove second marriage legal, the solemnisation of the second marriage should be in proper way of customary rites performed in the second marriage. Customary rites includes two ceremonies namely; invocation before the sacred and the saptapadi.

In succession that began prior to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the rule under Mitakshara law that a male ancestor up to three degrees below him the same rights as coparceners in that property from any of his paternal ancestor.