HAMA · 6
Requisites of a valid adoption
The person adopting has the capacity and right; the person giving in adoption has the capacity; the person adopted is capable of being adopted; and the adoption complies with the Act.
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Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
1956 · Ministry of Law and Justice · 30 sections
Codifies adoption among Hindus and the obligation to maintain a wife, children, aged parents and dependants.
Most-invoked sections
HAMA · 11
Other conditions for a valid adoption
No existing son when adopting a son (or daughter when adopting a daughter); age gap of twenty-one years where the adopter and adoptee are of opposite sex; the child must be actually given and taken in adoption.
HAMA · 16
Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption
A registered adoption deed signed by the giver and taker raises a presumption that the adoption was made in compliance with the Act unless disproved.
HAMA · 18
Maintenance of wife
A Hindu wife is entitled to be maintained by her husband during her lifetime, and to live separately without forfeiting maintenance on grounds including desertion, cruelty, another wife, and conversion.
HAMA · 20
Maintenance of children and aged parents
A Hindu is bound to maintain legitimate or illegitimate children and aged or infirm parents; a child is entitled until majority, and an unmarried daughter until she is able to maintain herself out of her own earnings or property.
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