पारिवारिक विधि · Marriage, divorce, custody, succession.
Family & Personal Laws
Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi, and Special Marriage Act — covering marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption.
पारिवारिक विधि
Marriage, divorce, custody, succession.
Overview
What this category covers
Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi, and Special Marriage Act — covering marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption.
Statutes
Acts in this category
- 1961Showcase
Dowry Prohibition Act
A thirteen-section penal statute that criminalises every angle of the dowry transaction. Originally a 1961 Act with a modest six-month maximum, hardened twice in 1984 and 1986 into a five-year minimum-imprisonment offence with the burden of proof reversed onto the accused. Runs alongside Section 80 BNS (dowry death) and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
13 sections · 1 chapters
- 1890MVP
Guardians & Wards Act
Act 8 of 1890 — the procedural code for guardianship of a minor's person and property. It does not displace personal-law rules on who may be a natural guardian (Hindu / Muslim / Christian / Parsi); instead it gives the District Court power to appoint, declare, regulate, supervise and remove a guardian, with welfare of the minor as the controlling test (§17). Lays down who may apply (§8), forum (§9), pleading and notice (§§10–11), interim custody (§12), grounds for removal (§39), penalty for taking the ward out of jurisdiction (§§26, 44), and an appeal to the High Court on the major orders (§47).
55 sections · 4 chapters
- 1955MVP
Hindu Marriage Act
Act 25 of 1955 — codifies the law of marriage among Hindus (and Buddhists, Jainas, Sikhs). Fixes the conditions for a valid marriage, recognises registration, and lays down the grounds and procedure for restitution of conjugal rights, judicial separation, annulment, divorce, divorce by mutual consent, maintenance pendente lite, permanent alimony, custody of children and appeals.
30 sections · 6 chapters
- 1956MVP
Hindu Succession Act
Act 30 of 1956 — codifies intestate succession among Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas and Sikhs. Defines Class I and Class II heirs (in the Schedule), abolished limited 'stridhana' to make every female Hindu an absolute owner under §14, and — after the landmark 2005 amendment — gave daughters equal coparcenary rights by birth under the recast §6. Covers special tarwad/aliyasantana rules, disqualifications (murderer, convert's descendants), testamentary disposition under §30 and escheat to the State under §29.
30 sections · 4 chapters
- 1937Showcase
Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Act
A six-section statute enacted in the last decade of British rule that displaced local Hindu-influenced custom in Muslim families and made the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) the rule of decision in marriage, divorce (including talaq, khula and mubaraat), maintenance, dower, guardianship, gifts, trusts, wakfs and intestate succession. Section 3 adds an opt-in route to extend the same regime to adoption, wills and legacies. The Act is small but constitutionally significant — it is the principal entry point of Muslim personal law into the modern Indian legal system.
6 sections · 1 chapters
- 2005Brief
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act
Provides protection orders, residence orders, monetary relief, custody and compensation to women in domestic relationships, in addition to any criminal remedy.
37 sections · 5 chapters
- 1954MVP
Special Marriage Act
Act 43 of 1954 — a religion-neutral civil-marriage statute. Any two persons (including inter-faith and inter-caste couples) may marry by giving 30 days' notice to a Marriage Officer, after objections are resolved. Chapter III lets couples register marriages already celebrated in other forms. Marriage under this Act severs a Hindu/Buddhist/Sikh/Jain spouse from the undivided family (subject to §21A) and routes succession through the Indian Succession Act, 1925. Chapters V–VI carry the full divorce, judicial-separation, mutual-consent and nullity regime; Chapter VII supplies CPC-style procedure with day-to-day trial, 6-month disposal target and 90-day appeals.
51 sections · 8 chapters