Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
हिंदू दत्तक ग्रहण और भरण-पोषण अधिनियम, 1956
Rules of adoption among Hindus, and maintenance of wives, children, aged parents and dependants.
- 29 sections
- 3 chapters
- Act No. 78 of 1956
Chapters and sections
1PreliminarySections 1 to 4
2AdoptionSections 5 to 17
- 5Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
- 6Requisites of a valid adoption
- 7Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
- 8Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
- 9Persons capable of giving in adoption
- 10Persons who may be adopted
- 11Other conditions for a valid adoption
- 12Effects of adoption
- 13Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
- 14Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
- 15Valid adoption not to be cancelled
- 16Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions
- 17Prohibition of certain payments
3MaintenanceSections 18 to 30
- 18Maintenance of wife
- 19Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
- 20Maintenance of children and aged parents
- 21Dependants defined
- 22Maintenance of dependants
- 23Amount of maintenance
- 24Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
- 25Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances
- 26Debts to have priority
- 27Maintenance when to be a charge
- 28Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance
- 29RepealedOmitted
- 30Savings
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