Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance  Act, 1956

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

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Act ID:	195678
Act Number:	78
Enactment Date:	1956-12-21
Act Year:	1956
Short Title:	The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Long Title:	An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
Ministry:	Ministry of Law and Justice
Department:	Legislative Department
Enforcement Date:	21-12-1956
Last Updated:	17-12-2018

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CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER II

ADOPTION

CHAPTER III

MAINTENANCE


Section 1. Short title and extent.
Section 2. Application of Act.
Section 3. Definitions.
Section 4. Overriding effect of Act.
Section 5. Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter.
Section 6. Requisites of a valid adoption.
Section 7. Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption.
Section 8. Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption.
Section 9. Persons capable of giving in adoption.
Section 10. Persons who may be adopted.
Section 11. Other conditions for a valid adoption.
Section 12. Effects of adoption.
Section 13. Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties.
Section 14. Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases.
Section 15. Valid adoption not to be cancelled.
Section 16. Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions.
Section 17. Prohibition of certain payments.
Section 18. Maintenance of wife.
Section 19. Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law.
Section 20. Maintenance of children and aged parents.
Section 21. Dependants defined.
Section 22. Maintenance of dependants.
Section 23. Amount of maintenance.
Section 24. Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu.
Section 25. Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances.
Section 26. Debts to have priority.
Section 27. Maintenance when to be a charge.
Section 28. Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance.
Section 29. Repealed.
Section 30. Savings

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