CHAPTER II ADOPTION

Section 8: Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

¹[Any female Hindu who is of sound mind and is not a minor has the capacity to take a son or daughter in adoption:

Provided that, if she has a husband living, she shall not adopt a son or daughter except with the consent of her husband unless the husband has completely and finally renounced the world or has ceased to be a Hindu or has been declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be of unsound mind.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by Act 30 of 2010, s. 3, for section 8 (w.e.f. 31-8-2010).

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1. Under Section 8 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, as substituted by Act 30 of 2010, a female Hindu of sound mind and not a minor, whose husband is living and has not renounced the world, ceased to be a Hindu or been declared of unsound mind:

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