Family

A statement of when and where someone was born, and why no certificate says so. Used for delayed birth registration, school admissions, passport applications, and correcting a date already on record. Signed as a declaration, or sworn as an affidavit where the registrar asks for one.

A sworn statement that a document was lost, how, and that it has not been pledged or transferred — the first step in applying for a duplicate passport, certificate, share certificate or deed.

A sworn statement of whether you are unmarried, married, divorced or widowed. Used for visas, marriage registration, pension and insurance claims, and by foreign employers. Made by one person about their own status; for a declaration by both spouses together that they are married, use the Joint Declaration of Marriage.

A sworn statement of where you live, since when, and on what basis — owner, tenant, family member or paying guest. Used where the usual address proof is unavailable or is in someone else's name.

Records a completed gift of MOVABLE property — money, gold and jewellery, valuables, a cherished possession — made voluntarily, without consideration, out of natural love and affection, and accepted by the donee during the donor's lifetime (Sections 122–123, Transfer of Property Act 1882: a movable gift completes by delivery, so this deed is the evidence of a gift the law lets delivery make). Carries the identifiable schedule of what is given with approximate values, the delivery record — for money, the bank or UPI reference, the same evidence discipline as the Money shelf — the donor's ownership and solvency confirmations, and express irrevocability. The relationship field matters beyond sentiment: gifts from specified relatives sit outside Section 56(2)(x) of the Income-tax Act, while gifts from others are taxable in the donee's hands once the year's aggregate crosses the threshold — guidance the assistant gives, never a recital in the deed. IMMOVABLE property is expressly out of scope: a gift of land or a flat is valid only by registered instrument, attracts ad-valorem duty, and is excluded from e-signature — that instrument waits, and a request for it goes to counsel. Gifting a vehicle also needs the RC transferred — the Vehicle Sale Agreement's transfer choreography applies even when the price is nil. For dividing family assets among members, use the Memorandum of Family Settlement; for what happens after a death, the Legal Heir Declaration.

A parent's or both parents' formal consent concerning a minor child, in the two forms authorities actually ask for: consent to the child TRAVELLING to a named destination for a stated period accompanied by a named adult — including the immigration-desk classic where one parent consents to the child travelling with the other parent — and consent to the child staying in a named person's TEMPORARY CARE at a stated address. Carries the child's particulars (with passport number for travel), the reliance sentence for immigration, airlines, schools and hospitals, an emergency-medical authorisation, contact details for verification, and the declarations shelf's standard attestation choice (self-declared, or affirmed/sworn where the consulate or authority asks). It is a consent about a specific period and purpose, NOT a transfer of guardianship: appointing or changing a guardian is a court matter under the Guardians and Wards Act 1890, and no letter does it.

A sworn statement of what you earned in a financial year and where it came from. Used for scholarships, fee concessions, EWS applications and court-fee waivers, where no Form 16 or income certificate is available.

A statement by both spouses together that they are married — when, where, under what rites, and that the marriage subsists. Used for marriage registration, spouse visas, joint accounts and pension nominations. Signed by both, or sworn as a joint affidavit where the office asks for one. Made by both spouses jointly; for one person's own sworn statement of being unmarried, married, divorced or widowed, use the Declaration of Marital Status.

The deponent's sworn or self-declared statement of who the deceased's legal heirs are: the deceased's particulars matched to the death certificate, a numbered schedule of every surviving heir with relationship, age and address, the declaration that there are no others, and optionally the specific account, policy or deposit the affidavit supports. The claims-side instrument the will prevents — banks, insurers and PF offices ask for it constantly during transmission. It is an affidavit of facts, NOT a certificate: it does not replace a legal heirship certificate from the revenue authority or a succession certificate from a court, which institutions may require for larger claims — where an institution has named one of those, this affidavit usually accompanies it rather than substitutes for it. For records that simply misname a living person, use the name-change or one-and-the-same-person declarations instead.

Records a family arrangement ALREADY arrived at and acted upon — siblings or family members who divided the family's properties, funds and assets amicably and now want the division on paper so it stays settled. Drafted strictly in the memorandum posture the Supreme Court's family-arrangement doctrine protects: past tense throughout, an express recital that the arrangement was bona fide and made in recognition of each member's antecedent rights, a complete numbered schedule of who holds what, mutual acceptance and releases, and the operative sentence that the Memorandum records and evidences the arrangement without itself creating or transferring any right. Members beyond two join through additional parties, in the preamble and the signature blocks. It is NOT an instrument of partition or settlement: a document by which the family divides property FOR THE FIRST TIME, or which contains words of transfer, attracts partition or settlement stamp duty and — where immovable property is involved — compulsory registration, and should go to counsel; likewise this is not the instrument for a contested division, for giving one person's asset to another (see the Gift Deed), or for what happens after a death (see the Legal Heir Declaration, and in time the Will).

A sworn declaration about the deponent's name: either that a former name has been changed to a new one, or that two differently-spelt entries in the records denote one and the same person and no change ever occurred. Required by banks, passport offices, schools and employers before they will amend or reconcile their records, and never made to evade any liability.