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The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

maharashtra · 1956

  • S. 1Clause (c) omitted by Act 6 of 2019, s
  • S. 2Application of Act
  • S. 3Definitions
  • S. 4Ins
  • S. 5The word “and” omitted by s
  • S. 6Requisites of a valid adoption
  • S. 7Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
  • S. 8Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
  • S. 9Persons capable of giving in adoption
  • S. 10Persons who may be adopted
  • S. 11Other conditions for a valid adoption
  • S. 12Effects of adoption
  • S. 13Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
  • S. 14Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
  • S. 15Valid adoption not to be cancelled
  • S. 16Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption
  • S. 17Prohibition of certain payments
  • S. 18Maintenance of wife
  • S. 19Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
  • S. 20Maintenance of children and aged parents
  • S. 21Dependants defined
  • S. 22Maintenance of dependants
  • S. 23Amount of maintenance
  • S. 24Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
  • S. 25Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances
  • S. 26Debts to have priority
  • S. 27Maintenance when to be a charge
  • S. 28Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance
  • S. 29[Repeals
  • S. 30Savings
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