Under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, the amount of maintenance is:

Section 9(1) lets the Tribunal order "a monthly allowance at such monthly rate for the maintenance of such senior citizen, as the Tribunal may deem fit", subject to the ceiling of ten thousand rupees a month under s.9(2). The Act fixes no sum or share of income, and civil courts are barred by s.27.