Nomination vs Succession

Several controversies have been witnessed in the High Courts of India on the subject of nomination.

Black's Law Dictionary defines "Nomination" as an appointment or designation of a person to fill an office or discharge a duty and "Nominee" as a person who has been nominated or proposed for an office. A nominee is a person that is appointed to receive an asset or investment in the event of one's death. A nominee may not necessarily be a legal heir or a relative.

The ownership of a property of a deceased person is distributed on the basis of the Will, in the absence of which, succession laws come into effect. The classification of heirs and who gets how much is different in different succession laws. The nominee holds the asset until the family members or dependants establish their claim on the same. But if a Will states otherwise, then it would discard all the nominations