The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
The amount of maintenance, whether fixed by a decree of court or by agreement, either before or after the commencement of this Act, may be altered subsequently if there is a material change in the circumstances justifying such alteration.
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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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