Family and Personal Law
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Act 78 of 1956 · 30 sections
Practise questions on Hindu Law
Title, date and preamble
[21st December, 1956.]
An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:―
Contents
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II ADOPTION
- 5.Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
- 6.Requisites of a valid adoption
- 7.Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
- 8.Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
- 9.Persons capable of giving in adoption
- 10.Persons who may be adopted
- 11.Other conditions for a valid adoption
- 12.Effects of adoption
- 13.Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
- 14.Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
- 15.Valid adoption not to be cancelled
- 16.Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption
- 17.Prohibition of certain payments
CHAPTER III MAINTENANCE
- 18.Maintenance of wife
- 19.Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
- 20.Maintenance of children and aged parents
- 21.Dependants defined
- 22.Maintenance of dependants
- 23.Amount of maintenance
- 24.Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
- 25.Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances
- 26.Debts to have priority
- 27.Maintenance when to be a charge
- 28.Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance