In force · As amended up to 2026-08
Chapter III: ## MAINTENANCE
CHAPTER III
MAINTENANCE
18. Maintenance of wife.
19. Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law.
20. Maintenance of children and aged parents.
21. Dependants defined.
22. Maintenance of dependants.
23. Amount of maintenance.
24. Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu.
25. Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances.
26. Debts to have priority.
27. Maintenance when to be a charge.
28. Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance.
29. [ Repealed .].
30. Savings.
THE HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956
ACT NO. 78 OF 1956[1]
[21 st December , 1956.]
An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:―
Source: India Code