Who is liable to maintain a widow after the death of her husband under Section 19 of the Hindu Adoption…

Under Section 19 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, a Hindu widow is entitled to be maintained by her "Father-in-law", to the extent that she cannot maintain herself from her own earnings or property, or obtain maintenance from the estate of her husband, father or mother, or from her son or daughter or their estate. The father-in-law's obligation is not enforceable if he has no means from coparcenary property in his possession out of which she has not obtained a share, and it ends on her remarriage. Her son or daughter is only an earlier source of support mentioned in the proviso, not the person on whom Section 19 places the liability.