Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956: Nature, Essentials & Effects (Sections 6 to 16)
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Adoption under Hindu law was once a deeply religious act, performed mainly so that a man would have a son to light his funeral pyre and carry forward his lineage. A daughter could rarely be adopted, a woman could almost never adopt in her own right, and…