Senior Citizens

Children taking care of Parents

Indian law requires all persons to maintain and support their parents - biological, step-parents as well as adoptive.

Punishment for Abandoning and Neglecting Senior Citizen

If you leave a senior citizen at some place with the intention of abandoning them and not taking care of them, you can be punished.

Amount of Maintenance for Parents

There is no standard amount of money awarded as maintenance for parents. It is decided on a case-by-case basis.

Maintenance under Hindu Law

Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh parents who are aged or infirmed can seek maintenance from their grown children under Hindu law.

Maintenance under Other Personal Laws

Maintenance under Muslim Law  Under Muslim law, maintenance is known as Nafaqah. Muslim law does not have any written and enacted statute for maintenance of parents by children. Children have a duty to maintain their parents if the parents are unable to support themselves. Both sons and daughters, whether adults or minors, are responsible for […]

Maintenance under the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Samhita, 2023 (BNSS)

A person who refuses to maintain parents who are unable to maintain themselves can be ordered to give a monthly allowance for maintenance.

Maintenance after death

The duty to maintain one's parents exists even after death. The amount of maintenance will be calculated as per the rules of inheritance.

Temporary maintenance for Senior Citizens

You can make an application to the court to order your children or relatives to pay you temporary maintenance (on a monthly basis).

Claiming Maintenance from Tribunal for Senior Citizens

You can file an application in a Maintenance Tribunal under the Maintenance And Welfare Of Parents And Senior Citizens Act, 2007.