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Hindu Personal Family Law - Marriage, Succession, and Guardianship

Tests knowledge of Hindu personal family law including marriage, divorce, succession, adoption, and guardianship under various acts

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Hindu male can claim maintenance from his wife under

  1. Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
  2. Section 18 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956
  3. Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
  4. None of the above provisions
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The rules regulating “the distribution of property among heirs in class I of the schedule” to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 are contained in

  1. Section 9
  2. Section 10
  3. Section 11
  4. Section 12
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Considering the provisions of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, the Supreme Court in which of the following cases held that “the mother can be considered to be the natural guardian of her minor child even when father is alive”?

  1. Jijabai Vithalrao Gajre Vs. Pathankhan AIR 1971 SC 315
  2. Apparel Export Promotion Council Vs. A.K. Chopra, AIR 1999 SC 625
  3. Githa Hariharan Vs. Reserve Bank of India, AIR 1999 SC 1149
  4. Both (1) and (3)
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Regard being had to laws relating to Hindu, which of the following is not correct?

  1. Irretrievable breakdown of the marriage is not a ground by itself to dissolve it.
  2. When evidence disclosed that parties, belonging to Santhal Tribe, were following customs of Hindus and not of Santhals, provision of Hindu Succession Act, 1956, would apply to inheritance of property.
  3. Allegations against wife of unchastity, indecent familiarity with another person and extra-marital relationship made in written statement filed by the husband would not constitute cruelty.
  4. None of the above
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following Sections of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, provides that children of a void marriage would be the legitimate children?

  1. Section 11
  2. Section 16
  3. Section 17
  4. Section 18
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Hindu, during subsistence of first marriage solemnised second marriage without obtaining divorce. Who are not entitled to grant of succession certificate on the death of A?

  1. First wife
  2. Second wife
  3. Children born out of second wife
  4. Children born out of first wife
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The marriage may be solemnised between two Hindus if

  1. bridegroom completes the age of 21 and bride completes 18 years
  2. bridegroom completes the age of 18 and bride completes 21 years
  3. bridegroom completes the age of 21 and bride completes 21 years
  4. bridegroom completes the age of 18 and bride completes 18 years
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 confers legitimacy on the children of

  1. a void marriage
  2. a voidable marriage
  3. a valid marriage
  4. both void and voidable marriages
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Talaq can be effected

  1. orally by spoken words
  2. in writing
  3. only (1) and not (2)
  4. either (1) or (2)
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

No person shall be entitled to act as the natural guardian of a minor under the provisions of this section,

  1. if he has ceased to be a Hindu
  2. if he has completely and finally renounced the world by becoming a hermit or an ascetic
  3. both 1 and 2
  4. none of the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Muslim can divorce his wife

  1. whenever he so desires without assigning any cause
  2. whenever he so desires but only with a cause
  3. whenever he so desires without assigning any cause but only in the presence of the wife
  4. either (2) or (3)
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

  1. does not prescribe the ceremonies requisite for solemnisation of marriage but leaves it to the parties to choose a form of ceremonial marriage, which is in accordance with any custom or usage applicable to either party
  2. does not prescribe the ceremonies requisite nor leaves it to the parties to choose
  3. does prescribe the ceremonies and does not leave it to the parties to choose
  4. does prescribe the ceremonies and at the same time leaves it to the parties to choose
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For a valid Muslim marriage,

  1. offer and acceptance must be at the same time
  2. offer and acceptance must be at the same place
  3. offer and acceptance must be at the same time and place
  4. offer and acceptance may be at different times and at different places
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Within the meanings of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, which of the following statements is not correct?

  1. A lunatic Hindu below the age of 15 years is not capable of being taken in adoption.
  2. A valid adoption once made cannot be cancelled.
  3. A Hindu male shall not be capable of taking a child in adoption unless he is of sound mind and is of the age of majority.
  4. Adoption is now said to be a purely secular institution.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Regard being had to the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, which of the following statements is not correct?

  1. If a Hindu woman had any existing interest in a property howsoever small, prior to the enactment of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, the same would blossom into a full-fledged right by virtue of the operation of Section 14(1) thereof.
  2. The right of daughter in coparcenary property is not lost by passing of preliminary decree for partition before the 20th day of December, 2004.
  3. If a right is created in a Hindu female for the first time in respect of any property under any instrument or under a decree, where a restricted estate in such property is prescribed, the provision of Section 14(2) of the above Act would be attracted and would not convert such a right into a full-fledged right of ownership of the property.
  4. The right of daughter in coparcenary property is not lost by any testamentary disposition of property, which had taken place before the 20th day of December, 2004.
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