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Unlike almost everything else on this website, the pedhinama procedure is not laid down in a statute we can cite. It runs on Revenue Department administrative practice and it varies between talukas and between officers. What follows is how it works in and around Vadodara. Confirm the current checklist with the office you are dealing with — or let us do that for you.
What a pedhinama is
A પેઢીનામું, also called પેઢી આંબો (family tree), sets out generation by generation every person related by blood to a deceased person, so that the complete set of heirs is on record. Almost everything that follows a death rests on it: mutation of land, release of a bank balance, distribution of an estate, and welfare scheme applications.
Who does what
In practice the Talati-cum-Mantri — the village-level revenue officer, or the City/Town Talati in urban areas — prepares and verifies the family-tree particulars and records the varsai entry in the village record. The Mamlatdar (rural) or the concerned zonal officer (urban) issues the varsai / legal heir certificate.
Two different anchors, and people routinely confuse them: the family-tree enquiry follows where the deceased ordinarily resided, while a land-record mutation is made in the village where the property is situated — frequently not the same place. Tell us both and we will tell you which offices are involved.
What the office will typically want
- A formal application
- A notarised affidavit on stamp paper — this is the part we prepare
- Death certificates for every deceased person in the chain, not only the most recent
- Aadhaar or ration card for the applicant and all the heirs
- Statements from witnesses who are not relatives — the office wants independent confirmation of the family structure, so two neighbours or acquaintances who knew the family are usually required
The revenue office issues the certificate. What we do is prepare the affidavit and the heir declarations that go with the application — correctly, so it is not sent back. An application returned because the affidavit does not name every branch, or because one heir's status is stated loosely, costs weeks.
Full guide: pedhinama and varsai explained →
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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 certificates for every deceased person in the chain
- Aadhaar or ration card for the applicant and all heirs
- Details of every branch of the family, including those abroad
- The deceased's last place of residence
- Details of the property and where it is situated
- Two non-relative witnesses who knew the family