Adoption Deed
An oral adoption is also legal. The law of adoption is peculiar to Hindus. Among other communities there is a no statutory law as to adoption and even custom though informal adoption might be in vogue. Its codified by the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act of 1956.
The concept of taking a son in adoption in the absence of a natural son was mainly religious in as much as the son was required to offer oblations to the mains of the ancestors and the subsidiary object was secular namely to continue the line of succession.
Different Types Adoption
- Deed of Adoption of a son
- Adoption by a widow, of a son
- Adoption by an unmarried woman, of a daughter
- Adoption of an orphan
Will
Will is defined in section 2(1) of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 as the legal declaration of the intention of a testator with respect to his property which he desires to be carried into effect after his death. Testamentary document or a testament means a document made by a person whereby he disposes of his property but unlike a disposal inter vivos, it is unilateral and comes into effect on his death and therefore, the document comes into effect on the death of the testator only. A will or testament is defined as a declaration, made in accordance with the formalities required by statute, of the intention of the person making it with regard to the matters which he wishes to take effect upon or after his death.
Different Types Will
- Common form of a Will
- Detail Will
- Mutual Will
- Another (Simpler) form of Mutual Will
- Joint Will
- Codicil (Correcting errors)
- Codicil (amending the Will)
- Will reviving a revoked Will
