Bare Act · Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 · Chapter II
Chapter II · Sections
5 · Adoptions to be regulated by this...
6 · Requisites of a valid adoption.
7 · Capacity of a male Hindu to take...
8 · Capacity of a female Hindu to take...
9 · Persons capable of giving in...
10 · Persons who may be adopted.
11 · Other conditions for a valid...
12 · Effects of adoption.
13 · Right of adoptive parents to...
14 · Determination of adoptive mother...
15 · Valid adoption not to be...
16 · Presumption as to registered...
17 · Prohibition of certain payments.
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Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption.
1[Any female Hindu who is of sound mind and is not a minor has the capacity to take a son or daughter in adoption:
Provided that, if she has a husband living, she shall not adopt a son or daughter except with the consent of her husband unless the husband has completely and finally renounced the world or has ceased to be a Hindu or has been declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be of unsound mind.]
Footnotes (from the official text)
1 Subs. by Act 30 of 2010, s. 3, for section 8 (w.e.f. 31-8-2010).
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