The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956
§7 — Natural guardianship of adopted son
The natural guardianship of an adopted son who is a minor passes, on adoption, to the adoptive father and after him to the adoptive mother.
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Official India Code text: The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1649/1/195632.pdf, 58,917 bytes, sha256 59087d51afc03591...) 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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