Author: SambitSatpathy

Abstract The digitization of property management through artificial intelligence presents an overlooked paradox in Indian family law: AI systems designed for autonomous decision-making conflict fundamentally with the Karta’s role as a consensus-bound fiduciary stewarding collective coparcenary interests. This paper identifies a critical gap in legal technology—namely, that existing AI property management platforms lack mechanisms to accommodate the non-hierarchical, distributed decision-making architecture inherent to Hindu Undivided Families. Through analysis of stakeholder conflict dynamics and succession law complexities, we demonstrate that conventional algorithms fail to embed the coparcener protections mandated under the Hindu Succession Act, creating governance vulnerabilities in joint family property…