e-StampNotary
Three things that sound the same
Customers arrive using all three words for whatever the bank asked for. They are different documents:
- Varsai mutation (વારસાઈ નોંધ) — the entry that actually puts the heirs' names into the land or property record. Filed at the taluka e-Dhara (ઇ-ધરા) centre for rural land, or the City Survey office for urban property. This is the step families most often skip.
- Legal heir / varsai certificate — issued by the Mamlatdar (rural) or the concerned zonal officer (urban). It establishes family relationship.
- Succession certificate — granted by the District Court under sections 370 to 390 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 where a person died without a will. It authorises collection of the deceased's debts and securities and does not deal with immovable property. More →
It establishes who the family members are. It is not treated as conclusive for transferring property or for releasing a substantial bank balance, and banks and courts may still require a succession certificate. If an institution has told you a legal heir certificate will suffice, get that in writing before you spend money obtaining one. If it has told you it will not, that is probably correct.
Nomination on a bank account, insurance policy, shareholding or society flat entitles the nominee to receive. It does not make them the owner. The nominee holds for the legal heirs, and nomination does not override succession law or a will. A son named as nominee on his mother's fixed deposit does not thereby inherit it to the exclusion of his sisters. This causes more family conflict than almost anything else.
Where there was a will
Succession follows the will, and the succession certificate route — which applies where a person died without one — is not the answer. Wills → · Probate →
What we prepare
Legal heir and heirship affidavits; the affidavit supporting a pedhinama application; no-objection and relinquishment affidavits of other heirs; affidavits of sole surviving heir and of intestacy; affidavits for varsai mutation entry; and indemnity bonds where a bank, company or society is releasing an asset.
We do not publish duty figures on this website. The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025 and several articles were restructured; a rate printed on a web page goes stale and costs somebody money. As a Government authorised e-Stamping centre we confirm the duty currently prescribed for your specific document and issue the e-stamp against it, at face value. The notarial fee is separate and capped by law — ₹35 to attest execution, ₹35 to administer an oath or take an affidavit, under Rule 10(1) of the Notaries Rules, 1956. The full fee table →
Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Death certificate of the deceased
- Aadhaar or ration card for the applicant and all heirs
- Pedhinama, if already obtained
- Details of the property or asset involved
- Whatever the bank, society or office has asked for, in writing