This paper aims to provide a nuanced view of the effects of property rights on women’s empowerment at different life stages and in different social circumstances, using an intersectional approach. The authors stress the importance of analyzing the interactions between gender and other vectors of inequality as well as legal pluralism when studying the relationship between Nepalese women's property rights and empowerment. The authors found that women have stronger claims to personal property than to joint property of households. They also found that women’s social position within the household impacts her property rights more than caste or ethnicity. Generally, newly married daughters-in-law have weaker rights compared to wives of the male head of the family. Women’s relationship with their husbands also heavily influences property rights, those in cooperative marriages being advantaged. Women’s property rights in Nepal are intricately linked to shifting social relationships. Therefore, future research must take this dynamism into account.