Executive Officer Paper II · 9 Hindu Family, Adoption and Succession · APPSC Paper I
9.1 Hindu Family, Adoption and Succession notes
3 notes, in reading order.
- 9.1.1Hindu family and marriage
The traditional Hindu family is a joint family run by a Karta, and Hindu marriage is a samskara with eight classical forms; since 1955 the Hindu Marriage Act sets the conditions, rites, void and voidable marriages and divorce, alongside the Special Marriage Act, 1954 and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
Standard · 14 min · Read here - 9.1.2Adoption and maintenance (HAMA 1956)
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 says who may adopt, who may give and who may be taken in adoption, what makes an adoption valid and what it does, and who must maintain a wife, children, aged parents and a dead person's dependants; adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children of any religion runs separately under the Juvenile Justice Act through CARA.
Standard · 11 min · Read here - 9.1.3Succession (Hindu Succession Act 1956)
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 decides who takes the property of a Hindu who dies without a will: for a man, Class I heirs first, then Class II, agnates and cognates; for a woman, the Section 15 order; Section 14 made a woman's property her absolute property, and the 2005 amendment (preceded in Andhra Pradesh by a 1986 law) made daughters coparceners by birth.
Standard · 12 min · Read here
Practise Hindu Family, Adoption and Succession. Questions with answers explained, from the same topics.
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