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What the agreement should specify
- The amount, and whether it is a lump sum, periodic payments, or both
- The dates, the mode of payment, and the account it goes to
- Escalation — a fixed percentage or an index, so it does not need renegotiating annually
- Duration, and the events on which it ends or changes
- What it covers — school fees, medical expenses and insurance are frequently assumed to be included and frequently are not
- Security, where the payer's circumstances make it appropriate
- What happens on default
An agreement records what the parties have decided. It does not remove a court's jurisdiction, and a court can order more than the agreement provides — particularly where children are involved, or where circumstances have changed materially since the agreement was made. An agreement is very useful evidence of what was considered reasonable at the time. It is not a bar.
Maintenance of parents and senior citizens
Obligations run upwards as well as downwards. Note also section 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007: where a senior citizen has transferred property subject to a condition that the transferee provide the basic amenities and basic physical needs of the transferor, and the transferee fails to do so, the Maintenance Tribunal may declare the transfer void at the transferor's option. Both elements have to be established. If a family transfer is being made on an understanding of care, write the condition into the deed — that is the practical lesson.
We do not publish duty figures on this website. The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025 and several articles were restructured; a rate printed on a web page goes stale and costs somebody money. As a Government authorised e-Stamping centre we confirm the duty currently prescribed for your specific document and issue the e-stamp against it, at face value. The notarial fee is separate and capped by law — ₹35 to attest execution, ₹35 to administer an oath or take an affidavit, under Rule 10(1) of the Notaries Rules, 1956. The full fee table →
Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Details of both parties and any children
- Income and expenditure particulars for both sides
- A note of what has been agreed
- Any existing court order on maintenance
- Details of property involved, where a transfer is part of the arrangement