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Indian Family Law - Hindu and Muslim Personal Laws

Comprehensive test on Indian family law covering Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, and Muslim personal law including marriage, divorce, succession, adoption, and custody

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As regards the payment, the dower can be

  1. prompt
  2. deferred
  3. Both (1) and (2)
  4. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Presumption that the younger survived the elder under Section 21 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 is a

  1. presumption of fact
  2. presumption of fact and law
  3. rebuttable presumption of law
  4. irrebuttable presumption law
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Under Hindu Law, a mother sells her minor son’s immovable property in the absence of her son’s father. The minor son on attaining majority can challenge this transaction

  1. on the ground of not taking permission from the court
  2. as the transaction was not done by his father
  3. as no such transaction can be done for minor son
  4. but he will be unsuccessful because the transaction is valid
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following sections of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 deals with "Restitution of Conjugal Rights"?

  1. Section 5
  2. Section 9
  3. Section 10
  4. Section 11
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Under pious obligation, a son is obliged to pay a debt contracted by his father

  1. before partition
  2. after partition
  3. either before or after partition
  4. for immoral purpose before partition
  5. All of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Under which Section of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 may husband and wife file a petition of divorce by mutual consent?

  1. Section 13A
  2. Section 13B
  3. Section 14
  4. Section 9
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Hindu woman, aged twenty, adopts a Hindu boy who is twenty-years-old. The adoption is

  1. void
  2. voidable at the instance of the boy
  3. immoral and enforceable
  4. valid, if taken with leave of the court
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

'Heir' has been defined under

  1. Section 3(4) of the Hindu Succession Act
  2. Section 3(e) of the Hindu Succession Act
  3. Section 3(f) of the Hindu Succession Act
  4. Section 3(g) of the Hindu Succession Act
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Hindu female W dies and is survived by her husband H, one son S and two unmarried daughters D1 and D2. How will the property of W be divided?

  1. Into four equal parts
  2. Half to husband and remaining half to son and daughters
  3. Half to son and remaining half to husband and daughters
  4. One-third to husband, one-third to son and remaining one-third to daughters
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a Hindu couple having the decree of judicial separation wants to live together,

  1. they can live together
  2. they cannot live together
  3. they can live together after remarriage
  4. they can live together only with the permission of the court
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Under Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, a person cannot be adopted if he is

  1. a Hindu
  2. unmarried
  3. above fifteen years of age
  4. not already adopted
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 does not apply to

  1. Jains
  2. Buddhists
  3. Sikhs
  4. Persons belonging to Scheduled Tribe
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hindu law does not apply to a person who is a Hindu by

  1. birth
  2. conversion
  3. reconversion
  4. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a ground for dissolution of a Muslim marriage under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939?

  1. Whereabouts of the husband is not known for four years
  2. Option of puberty
  3. Non-maintenance of wife by the husband for two years
  4. Non-payment of mahr
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Degrees of prohibited relationship include relationship by

  1. full blood
  2. half or uterine blood
  3. adoption
  4. All of the above
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Under the Hindu Law, premarital relation of a spouse is a statutory ground for

  1. judicial separation
  2. divorce
  3. nullity of marriage
  4. None of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Insanity is a valid ground for

  1. getting a marriage annulled as voidable
  2. judicial separation
  3. divorce
  4. All of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hindu male of 28 years of age adopts a female child of 13 years of age. The adoption is

  1. valid
  2. voidable
  3. illegal
  4. void
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mother's right to have the custody of a minor child is known as

  1. Hizanat
  2. Hazina
  3. Khula
  4. Ahula
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The renunciation of Islam by a married Muslim women or her conversion to a faith other than Islam

  1. shall not by itself dissolve the marriage
  2. shall by itself dissolve the marriage
  3. may by itself dissolve the marriage
  4. None of these
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