What are the Requisites of a valid adoption Section 6 of Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
6. No adoption shall be valid unless -
(i) the person adopting has the capacity, and also the right, to take in adoption;
(ii) the person giving in adoption has the capacity to do so;
(iii) the person adopted is capable of being taken in adoption; and
(iv) the adoption is made in compliance with the other conditions mentioned in this Chapter.
HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT 1956
Section 2 - Application of Act
Section 4 - Overriding effect of Act
CHAPTER II ADOPTION
Section 5 - Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter
Section 6 - Requisites of a valid adoption
Section 7 - Capacity of a 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 be adopted
Section 11 - Other conditions for a valid adoption
Section 12 - Effects of adoption
Section 13 - Right of 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
CHAPTER III MAINTENANCE
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
CHAPTER IV REPEALS AND SAVINGS
Section 29 - Repeals