What is the Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption Section 8 of Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
8. Any female Hindu
(a) who is of sound mind,
(b) who is not a minor, and
(c) who is not married, or if married, whose marriage has been dissolved or whose husband is dead or 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, has the capacity to take a son or daughter in adoption.
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