ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1966
SHAR'IYAH COURTS AND MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ENACTMENT, 1966

PART IV - MAINTENANCE OD DEPENDANTS



Section 86. Illegitimate children.

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