The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance  Act

Adoptions to be regulated by this Chapter

Requisites of a valid adoption

Capacity of a male Hindu to take in adoption

Capacity of a female Hindu to take in adoption

Persons capable of giving in adoption

Persons who may be adopted

Other conditions for a valid adoption

Effects of adoption

Right of adoptive parents to dispose of their properties

Determination of adoptive mother in certain cases

Valid adoption not to be cancelled

Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions

Prohibition of certain payments


ADOPTION


Whenever any document
registered under any law for the time being in force is produced before any court purporting to record an
adoption made and is signed by the person giving and the person taking the child in adoption, the court
shall presume that the adoption has been made in compliance with the provisions of this Act unless and
until it is disproved.

LAWGIST

# 16 Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoptions