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Application for maintenance order.- (1) Any person who is unable to maintain himself and 1[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] is resident in the State of Himachal Pradesh, may apply to the Tribunal for an order- (i) in case of a parent or grand parent, that one or more of his children or grand children ; (ii) in case of wife, that her husband ; (iii) in case of minor son or unmarried daughter, that his or her father and where father is dead, his or her mother ; and (iv) in case of dependant (other than a parent, grand parent, wife, minor son or un married daughter) if such dependant has not obtained, by testamentary of intestate succession, any share in an estate of his ancestor that the persons who take the share, shall pay him a monthly allowance, not exceeding five thousand rupees per mensem, or any other periodical payment or a lump-sum for his maintenance. (2) An approved person or organisation in whose care a parent, wife, child or dependant resides may apply to the Tribunal for an order that the respondent shall pay to the approved person or organisation a monthly allowance not exceeding five thousand rupees per mensem or any other periodical payment or a lump sum for the purposes of defraying the cost and expenses of maintaining that parent, wife, child or a dependant, as the case may be. (3) Where a parent, wife, child or dependant ceases to be in the care of the approved person or organisation, any part of the monthly allowance, other periodical payment or lump sum remaining after deducting the reasonable cost and expenses of maintaining the parent, wife, child and the dependant shall be held in trust for such parent, wife, child and the dependants, as the case may be.