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Punjab and Haryana HC: Foreign Nationals are Covered Under Senior Citizens Act(03.02.2016)

Punjab and Haryana HC has ruled that foreign citizens living in India are also covered under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Ac.....

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Delhi HC to State: Ensure Strict Compliance of Senior Citizens Act(04.08.2022)

Delhi High Court has directed Delhi Government to ensure strict compliance of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, and al.....

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Bombay High Court: Senior Citizens Act Cannot be Misused to Summarily Evict a Son(09.12.2025)

Bombay High Court held that the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 protects senior citizens’ rights and cannot be misuse.....

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Karnataka HC: Senior Citizens Act Prospective in Nature; Won't Affect Past Transactions(29.11.2021)

Karnataka High Court has reiterated that the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, is prospective in nature and will only .....

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Madras HC: Senior Citizens Act Applies Only To Post-2007 Property Transfers, Not Retrospective(24.03.2026)

Madras High Court held that the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 applies only to property transfers made after its com.....

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Delhi High Court: Question of Property Title Can’t be Decided by Forums Under Senior Citizens Act(29.05.2024)

Del. HC has held that a reading of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 makes it clear that the forum under the Act do.....

Tags : Delhi High Court, Senior Citizens Act, Title of Property

SC Dismisses Mother's Plea to Evict Son from Ancestral Home under Senior Citizens Act(28.03.2025)

SC while observing that eviction of children is not mandatory in every case, stated that provisions of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior C.....

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Del. HC: No Retrospective Effect of Section 23 of Senior Citizens Act, 2007(15.05.2023)

Delhi High Court while observing that unless terms of statute expressly provide, retrospective operation should not be given to a statute, has dismiss.....

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Bombay HC: Can't Ask Daughter-In-Law To Pay Mother-In-Law Maintenance Under Senior Citizens Act(19.05.2022)

Bombay High Court has observed that a daughter-in-law cannot be directed to pay maintenance to her ailing mother-in-law, especially in the absence of .....

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Rights of Elderly Persons Must be Recognised & Implemented: SC Issues Directives(14.12.2018)

Supreme Court has observed that there cannot be any excuse of lack of finances either by the Government of India or by the State Governments in strict.....

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Delhi High Court: Can’t Use Senior Citizens Act For Purposes of Property Dispute(23.02.2024)

Delhi High Court has held that the purpose behind enacting Senior Citizens Act, 2007 was to protect the senior citizens from exploitation and not for .....

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Allahabad HC: Senior Citizens Act Cannot Decide Title Disputes Unless Transfer Challengeable(06.07.2026)

Allahabad High Court held that Section 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 cannot be used to decide title dispu.....

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Kerala HC: Tribunal's Power of Maintenance Not Circumscribed to Ordering Monthly Allowance(04.04.2022)

Kerala High Court has observed that the power of the Maintenance Tribunal under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 i.....

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