Matrimonial Law - The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 - Section 24 - Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Section 1-30

Section 1

Short title and extent

Section 2

Application of Act

Section 3

Definitions

Section 4

Overriding effect of Act

Section 5

Adoption to be regulated by this Chapter

Section 6

Requisites of a valid adoption

Section 7

Capacity of male Hindu to take in adoption

Section 8

Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption

Section 9

Persons capable of giving in adoption

Section 10

Persons who may adopted

Section 11

Other conditions for a valid adoption

Section 12

Effects of adoption

Section 13

Right to adoptive parents to dispose of their properties

Section 14

Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases

Section 15

Valid adoption not to be cancelled

Section 16

Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption

Section 17

Prohibition of certain payments

Section 18

Maintenance of wife

Section 19

Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law

Section 20

Maintenance of children and aged parents

Section 21

Dependants defined

Section 22

Maintenance of dependants

Section 23

Amount of maintenance

Section 24

Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu

Section 25

Amount of maintenance may be altered on change of circumstances

Section 26

Debts to have priority

Section 27

Maintenance when to be a charge

Section 28

Effect of transfer of property on right to maintenance

Section 29

Repeals

Section 30

Savings

Section 24- Claimant to maintenance should be a Hindu

No person shall be entitled to claim maintenance under this Chapter if he or she has ceased to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion.

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

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The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Section 24