Obtain Maintenance From

Obtain maintenance from, the word 'obtain' as used in the proviso is also, in court opinion, significant. It does not merely mean that the widow is somehow managing to live with or is being maintained by her father or mother or that her father or mother are somehow managing to save their widowed daughter from starvation, for if this were to be the meaning placed on the word 'obtain', then, apparently, the basic and main purpose and object of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act would be thwarted rather than advanced, Jal Kaur v. Pala Singh, AIR 1961 Punj 391 (395). (Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, s. 19 Proviso)