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The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act

An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
1956
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title and extent
  3. 2
     Application of Act
  4. 3
     Definitions
  5. 4
     Overriding effect of Act

  • 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     Repealed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