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Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act
An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
| Act Id | 195678 |
| Act Number | 78 |
| Enactment Date | 1956-12-21 |
| Act Year | 1956 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Law and Justice |
| Enforcement Date | 21-12-1956 |
- PRELIMINARY
- ADOPTION
- 5 Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
- 6 Requisites of a valid adoption
- 7 Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
- 8 Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
- 9 Persons capable of giving in adoption
- 10 Persons who may be adopted
- 11 Other conditions for a valid adoption
- 12 Effects of adoption
- 13 Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
- 14 Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
- 15 Valid adoption not to be cancelled
- 16 Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions
- 17 Prohibition of certain payments
- MAINTENANCE
- 18 Maintenance of wife
- 19 Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
- 20 Maintenance of children and aged parents
- 21 Dependants defined
- 22 Maintenance of dependants
- 23 Amount of maintenance
- 24 Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
- 25 Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances
- 26 Debts to have priority
- 27 Maintenance when to be a charge
- 28 Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance
- 29 Repealed
- 30 Saving
