ENACTMENT NO 4 OF 1955
ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1955 (1374H)



Section 121. Illegitimate children.

(1) If any person neglects or refuses to maintain an illegitimate child of his which is unable to maintain itself, the Court of a Kathi, upon due proof thereof, may order such person to make such monthly allowance as to the Court may seem reasonable:

Provided that if the claim be made against the putative father, it shall be brought in the Magistrate's Court which may order him to make such monthly allowance not exceeding fifty dollars as to the Court may seem reasonable.

(2) Such allowance shall be payable from the date of such neglect or default or from such later date as may be specified in the order.




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