1. Introduction;
2. Applicability of Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act;
3. What is Adoption?
3.1. Who can Adopt a child?
3.2. When is adoption valid?
3.3. Necessary conditions to be fulfilled for:
3.4. Effects of adoption;
3.5. Rights of adoptive parents to dispose of their property ;
4. Who will be the adoptive mother in case of adoption by a male?
4.1. Can a valid adoption be cancelled?
4.2. Prohibition of payments;
5. Maintenance;
5.1. What is maintenance?
5.2. Maintenance of wife;
5.3. Maintenance of widowed daughters-in-law;
5.4. Maintenance of children and aged parents;
5.5. Maintenance of dependants;
5.6. Amount of Maintenance;
5.7. Alteration of the amount due to change in circumstances;
5.8. The claimant of Maintenance should be a Hindu;
5.9. Can maintenance be a charge?
5.10. Effect of transfer of property on rights to maintenance.