Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
19. Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law
(1) A Hindu wife, whether married before or after the
commencement of this Act, shall be entitled to be maintained after the death of
her husband by her father-in-law:
PROVIDED and to the extent that she is unable to
maintain herself out of her own earnings or other property or, where she has no
property of her own, is unable to obtain maintenance-
(a) from the estate of her husband or her father or mother, or
(b) from her son or daughter, if any, or his or her estate.
(2) Any obligation under sub-section (1) shall not be
enforceable if the father-in law has not the means to do so from any
coparcenary property in his possession out of which the daughter-in-law has not
obtained any share, and any such obligation shall cease on the re-marriage of
the daughter-in-law.