The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
HAMA · 1956
Ch. I · PRELIMINARY
Ch. II · ADOPTION
- §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 adoption
- §17Prohibition of certain payments
Ch. III · MAINTENANCE
- §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