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Clocking Out The Three-Month Rule: What The Supreme Court’s Adoption Leave Ruling Means For Corporate India
In Hamsaanandini Nanduri v Union of India, the Supreme Court examined whether adoptive mothers could be denied maternity benefit merely because the adopted child was older than three months. The challenge was first mounted against the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (“the Act”), but after the Code on Social Security, 2020 (“the Code”) came into force on November 21, 2025, the Court treated the Code as the operative provision.
India Employment
AP
AK & Partners
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Understanding The Treatment Of An HUF Under The Income Tax Act, 1961
A Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) is a unique legal institution recognised under Hindu personal law, arising from the joint status of a family, rather than any formal act of creation. It is ordinarily constituted of every person lineally descended from a common ancestor, together with their wives, sons, and unmarried daughters. Within this structure, a coparcener refers to a member who acquires an interest in joint family property by birth and has the right to seek partition.
India Tax
Fox & Mandal
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