Bare Act
The Jammu and Kashmir Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1960
This Act extends to the whole of the Jammu and Kashmir State and applies to Hindus (including Virashaiva, Lingayat, Brahmo, Arya Samaj followers), Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs. It covers persons not of other specific religions (Muslim, Christian, Parsi, or Jewish) unless customarily governed by Hindu Law, regarding adoption and maintenance matters. I have processed the preliminary section (Sections 1 and 2) of the Act text you provided. To generate the comprehensive 'Act Explained' Study Guide as requested—including detailed sections on Adoption procedures, Maintenance entitlements, Appeals, and Offences—I need the remaining substantive portions of the statute. Please provide the next section or the full text of the remaining chapters (specifically the main chapters on Adoption, Maintenance, and Application/Illustrations).
Chapter I PRELIMINARY →
Chapter II Adoption →
- 5Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
- 6Requisites of a valid adoption
- 7Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption
- 8Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption
- 9Persons capable of giving in adoption
- 10Persons who may be adopted
- 11Other conditions for a valid adoption
- 12Effects of adoption
- 13Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties
- 14Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases
- 15Valid adoption not to be cancelled
- 16Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption
- 17Prohibition of certain payments
Chapter III Maintenance →
- 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
Chapter IV Repeals and Savings →
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