HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTE­NANCE ACT, 1956

 

SECTION

PRELIMINARY

 

1.         Short title and extent

2.         Application of Act

3.         Definitions

4.         Overriding effect of Act

 

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

 

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

 

REPEALS AND SAVINGS

 

29.        ***

30.        Savings