law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  9. Order for
  
  maintenance.-
  
  1.  
  
    If
  
  children or relatives, as the case may be, neglect or refuse to maintain a
  
  senior citizen being unable to maintain himself, the Tribunal may, on being
  
  satisfied of such neglect or refusal, order such children or relatives to make
  
  a monthly allowance at such monthly rate for the maintenance of such senior
  
  citizen, as the Tribunal may deem fit and to pay the same to such senior
  
  citizen as the Tribunal may, from time to time, direct.
  2.  
  
    The
  
  maximum maintenance allowance which may be ordered by such Tribunal shall be
  
  such as may be prescribed by the State Government which shall not exceed ten
  
  thousand rupees per month.