LawgistThe Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act
26Debts to have priority
Subject to the provisions contained in section 27 debts of every description contracted or payable by the deceased shall have priority over the claims of his dependants for maintenance under this Act.
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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- 29 Repealed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
