Hindu Adoptions And Maintenance Act, 1956
Section - 1 - Short title and extentSection - 2 - Application of Act
Section - 3 - Definitions
Section - 4 - Overriding effect of Act
Section - 5 - Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
Section - 6 - Requisites of a valid adoption
Section - 7 - Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
Section - 8 - Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
Section - 9 - Persons capable of giving in adoption
Section - 10 - Persons who may be adopted
Section - 11 - Other conditions for a valid adoption
Section - 12 - Effects of adoption
Section - 13 - Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
Section - 14 - Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
Section - 15 - Valid adoption not to be cancelled
Section - 16 - Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption
Section - 17 - Prohibition of certain payments
Section - 18 - Maintenance of wife
Section - 19 - Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
Section - 20 - Maintenance of children and aged parents
Section - 21 - Dependants defined
Section - 22 - Maintenance of dependants
Section - 23 - Amount of maintenance
Section - 24 - Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
Section - 25 - Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances
Section - 26 - Debts to have priority
Section - 27 - Maintenance when to be a charge
Section - 28 - Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance
Section - 29 - -
Section - 30 - Savings
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