Hindu Adoptions And Maintenance Act, 1956

Section - 1 - Short title and extent

Section - 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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