The core of the Hindu Indian society is based upon the system of Joint Hindu Family. The rights, responsibilities and liabilities being joint within the kinship for all the members of the family. However, urban development, industrialization and the quest for better opportunities has had a severe impact on the system of joint Hindu families in India. These forces have weakened the ties of kinship within the family as parents influence over their children has reduced and younger generations are also isolated from their distant relatives. In the 1941 Hindu law committee’s report, Hon. Srinivasa Sastri made an important comment on the Hindu joint family and stated that “the joint family is already crumbling… the modern spirit does not favor its continuance any longer”. Based upon the recommendation of this committee, which was formed to codify Hindu Laws, Kerela abolished Hindu joint family system by enacting by enacting the Kerala Hindu Joint Family (Abolition) Act, 1975. This paper analyses the Hindu joint family system origins, its present situation, and the reasons of its dwindling with time