Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act Archives

Refusal to maintain senior citizen not a ground for cancellation of Gift or Release deed in absence of specific condition for providing maintenance: SC

“When a senior citizen parts with his or her property by executing a gift or a release or otherwise in favour of his or her near and dear ones, a condition of looking after the senior citizen is not necessarily attached to it.”

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Calcutta High Court | ‘Indian values being eroded with adoption of western culture’ – Court orders daughter to pay maintenance and provide accommodation to parents

“…with globalization and with all modern technology we find drastic change in socio economic conditions and Indian values being eroded with adoption of the western culture and western tradition.”

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Son not expected to brand his aged father a ‘swindler’ or allege that aged parents have lost mental balance: Bom HC

Bombay High Court: In a matter wherein, the parents sought eviction of their son, Rohit B. Deo, J., expressed that, “In the

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Contribution for renovation to father’s self-acquired property a ground to not being evicted ? Here’s what P&H HC opined while deciding on Eviction Order for Son and Daughter-in-law

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Expressing that when the children, who the parents have reared with untold sorrows and miseries, throw them

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Ker HC | Court orders Maintenance Tribunal to reconsider the case and elicit truth by inquisitorial approach under MWPSC Act

Kerala High Court: A. Muhamed Mustaque, J. dismissed a petition challenging the order of Appellate Authority under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents

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Chh HC | Step-son held duty bound to maintain his step-mother under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agarwal, J. imposed costs of Rs 2000 while dismissing a petition filed by a step-son for setting aside

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Parents can evict children under the provisions of MWPSC Act, 2007 upon being harassed: Bombay HC

Bombay High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of R.D. Dhanuka, J., addressed a petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution

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Senior citizens entitled to institute application seeking eviction of son/ daughter or other legal heir on grounds of ill-treatment or non-maintenance

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising of Siddharth Mridul and Deepa Sharma, JJ., dismissed a Letters