Hindu Adoptions And Maintenance Act, 1956

Section - 1 - Short title and extent

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Section - 2 - Application of Act

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Section - 3 - Definitions

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Section - 4 - Overriding effect of Act

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Section - 5 - Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter

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Section - 6 - Requisites of a valid adoption

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Section - 7 - Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption

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

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Section - 9 - Persons capable of giving in adoption

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Section - 10 - Persons who may be adopted

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Section - 11 - Other conditions for a valid adoption

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Section - 12 - Effects of adoption

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Section - 13 - Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties

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Section - 14 - Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases

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Section - 15 - Valid adoption not to be cancelled

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Section - 16 - Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption

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Section - 17 - Prohibition of certain payments

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Section - 18 - Maintenance of wife

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Section - 19 - Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law

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Section - 20 - Maintenance of children and aged parents

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Section - 21 - Dependants defined

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Section - 22 - Maintenance of dependants

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Section - 23 - Amount of maintenance

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Section - 24 - Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu

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Section - 25 - Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances

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Section - 26 - Debts to have priority

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Section - 27 - Maintenance when to be a charge

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Section - 28 - Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance

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Section - 29 - -

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Section - 30 - Savings

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