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A1956-78.pdf
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About this act
- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1956-12-21
- Sections available
- 30
Commencement information from the source
21-12-1956
Read the sections
1Short title and extent.→2Application of Act.→3Definitions.→4Overriding effect of Act.→5Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter.→6Requisites of a valid adoption.→7Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption.→8Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption.→9Persons capable of giving in adoption.→10Persons who may be adopted.→11Other conditions for a valid adoption.→12Effects of adoption.→13Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties.→14Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases.→15Valid adoption not to be cancelled.→16Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions.→17Prohibition of certain payments.→18Maintenance of wife.→19Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law.→20Maintenance of children and aged parents.→21Dependants defined.→22Maintenance of dependants.→23Amount of maintenance.→24Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu.→25Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances.→26Debts to have priority.→27Maintenance when to be a charge.→28Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance.→29Repealed.→30Savings→
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