Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Bare Act · 1956
An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
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- Act number
- 78 of 1956
- Enacted
- 21 December 1956
- Contents
- 30 sections · 3 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Short title and extent
- Section 2 – Application of Act
- Section 3 – Definitions
- Section 4 – Overriding effect of Act
Chapter II — Adoption
- Section 5 – Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
- Section 6 – Requisites of a valid adoption (preview)
- Section 7 – Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption (preview)
- Section 8 – Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption (preview)
- Section 9 – Persons capable of giving in adoption (preview)
- Section 10 – Persons who may be adopted (preview)
- Section 11 – Other conditions for a valid adoption (preview)
- Section 12 – Effects of adoption (preview)
- Section 13 – Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties (preview)
- Section 14 – Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases (preview)
- Section 15 – Valid adoption not to be cancelled (preview)
- Section 16 – Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions (preview)
- Section 17 – Prohibition of certain payments (preview)
Chapter III — Maintenance
- Section 18 – Maintenance of wife (preview)
- Section 19 – Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law (preview)
- Section 20 – Maintenance of children and aged parents (preview)
- Section 21 – Dependants defined (preview)
- Section 22 – Maintenance of dependants (preview)
- Section 23 – Amount of maintenance (preview)
- Section 24 – Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu (preview)
- Section 25 – Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances (preview)
- Section 26 – Debts to have priority (preview)
- Section 27 – Maintenance when to be a charge (preview)
- Section 28 – Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance (preview)
- Section 29 – [Repealed.] (preview)
- Section 30 – Savings THE HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956 (preview)