With reference to Section 16 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, whenever any document…
Under Section 16 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, where a registered document recording an adoption and signed by the person giving and the person taking…
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With reference to Section 16 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, 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 _______.
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Under Section 16 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, where a registered document recording an adoption and signed by the person giving and the person taking the child is produced before a court, the court shall presume that the adoption complied with the Act "unless and until it is disproved". The presumption is rebuttable, so the party challenging the adoption must disprove it.
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