The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
§24 — Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu
No person shall be entitled to claim maintenance under this Chapter if he or she has ceased to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1638/1/AA1956____78.pdf, 146,411 bytes, sha256 5503d94a84375aba...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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