Chapter III — Maintenance

Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 · Sections 18–28

• 18Maintenance of wife.
• 19Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law.
• 20Maintenance of children and aged parents.
• 21Dependants defined.
• 22Maintenance of dependants.
• 23Amount of maintenance.
• 24Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu.
• 25Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances.
• 26Debts to have priority.
• 27Maintenance when to be a charge.
• 28Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance.

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