The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007

An old couple in Dombivli gave their only flat to their son, who promised to look after them. A year later he sold it, and they are now living with a relative. They cannot afford a civil suit that will run for years, and in any case they need money for medicines now. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 was written for exactly this: a cheap, quick tribunal instead of a court, and a power to undo a transfer that was made on a promise of care.

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The 2007 Act gives a parent or a senior citizen (sixty or above) a quick, inexpensive claim for maintenance before a Maintenance Tribunal against children or, for a childless senior citizen, against relatives who would inherit, and lets the Tribunal declare void a transfer made on a promise of care that was not kept.

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