LawgistThe Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act
5Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
(1) No adoption shall be made after the commencement of this Act by or to a Hindu except in accordance with the provisions contained in this Chapter, and any adoption made in contravention of the said provisions shall be void.
(2) An adoption which is void shall neither create any rights in the adoptive family in favour of any person which he or she could not have acquired except by reason of the adoption, nor destroy the rights of any person in the family of his or her birth.
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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
