Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance
Master statutory directory covering all 30 sections of Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance. Live search by section number or subject matter, and click through to the complete statutory practice guide.
Master statutory directory covering all 30 sections of Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance. Live search by section number or subject matter, and click through to the complete statutory practice guide.
| Section | Statutory Provision & Subject | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Sec 1 | Short title and extent | Guide |
| Sec 2 | Application of Act | Guide |
| Sec 3 | Definitions (Custom, Maintenance, Minor) | Guide |
| Sec 4 | Overriding effect of Act | Guide |
| Sec 5 | Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter | Guide |
| Sec 6 | Requisites of a valid adoption (Capacity to take, capacity to give, person adopted, other conditions) | Guide |
| Sec 7 | Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption (Consent of wife mandatory) | Guide |
| Sec 8 | Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption | Guide |
| Sec 9 | Persons capable of giving in adoption (Father, mother, guardian) | Guide |
| Sec 10 | Persons who may be adopted (Hindu, not already adopted, unmarried, below 15 years unless custom permits) | Guide |
| Sec 11 | Other conditions for a valid adoption (Age difference of 21 years if opposite sex; no child of same sex) | Guide |
| Sec 12 | Effects of adoption (Severance from natural family and ties created in adoptive family from date of adoption) | Guide |
| Sec 13 | Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties | Guide |
| Sec 14 | Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases | Guide |
| Sec 15 | Valid adoption not to be cancelled (Irrevocability of valid adoption) | Guide |
| Sec 16 | Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption | Guide |
| Sec 17 | Prohibition of certain payments (Payment for adoption prohibited & penal offence) | Guide |
| Sec 18 | Maintenance of wife (Right to reside separately without forfeiting maintenance on desertion, cruelty, concubine, conversion) | Guide |
| Sec 19 | Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law (Liability of father-in-law from coparcenary estate) | Guide |
| Sec 20 | Maintenance of children and aged parents (Legitimate/illegitimate minor children and aged/infirm parents) | Guide |
| Sec 21 | Dependants defined (Father, mother, widow, minor son, unmarried daughter, widowed daughter, minor grandson) | Guide |
| Sec 22 | Maintenance of dependants (Liability of heirs of deceased to maintain dependants out of estate) | Guide |
| Sec 23 | Amount of maintenance (Assessment based on status, value of estate, claimant's reasonable wants and income) | Guide |
| Sec 24 | Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu | Guide |
| Sec 25 | Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances | Guide |
| Sec 26 | Debts to have priority over maintenance claims | Guide |
| Sec 27 | Maintenance when to be a charge on estate | Guide |
| Sec 28 | Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance | Guide |
| Sec 29 | Repeals | Guide |
| Sec 30 | Savings | Guide |