Under the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, a Hindu mother can appoint a guardian for…

Section 9(3) of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 lets a Hindu mother appoint a guardian by will for her minor legitimate children when she is entitled to act as natural guardian "by reason of the fact that the father has become disentitled to act as such" (a widow may do so as well). While the father is alive and acting as natural guardian the power is his under s. 9(1), and neither his consent nor a court's leave is the condition the Act lays down.