Grounds for Divorce – Cruelty
Marriage between two persons presupposes cohabitation on harmonious relationship arising out of mutual respect and understanding between the husband and the wife .
Read MoreMarriage between two persons presupposes cohabitation on harmonious relationship arising out of mutual respect and understanding between the husband and the wife .
Read MoreIndia being a secular country, the Constitution grants every individual to profess any faith or relinquish his faith that he had acquired at the time of his birth. The objective behind this, apart from the legal complications and application of diffe...
Read More“As per the Hindu Marriage Act, divorce maintenance is about the husband providing financial support for his wife’s living expenses. Generally, it’s not just the wife but the children and her parents are equally entitled to receiving financial aid fr...
Read MoreWife entitled to interim alimony even if marriage is annulled: Odisha HC
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has observed that children who were born to an adoptee before his adoption are entitled to inherit his property in the adoptive family.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has reiterated that settlement between victim and the accused cannot be a valid ground to quash the FIR. or the charge sheet when the offences alleged are against society and not private in nature.
Read MoreThe Bombay High Court last month dismissed an appeal filed by one Sunil Ramteke, a 28-year-old labourer from Nagpur, who was convicted under 376(2)(i)(j) read with Section 109 of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of Protection of Children fr...
Read MoreThe concept of cruelty as a ground for divorce has no particular legal definition under the laws of India and the same had been done keeping in view that the concept of cruelty cannot have a straight-jacket formula amounting to its dynamic nature and...
Read MoreA decree to dissolve a marriage can be sought on the ground that the other spouse has been incurably of unsound mind, or has been suffering continuously or intermittently from a mental disorder of such a kind and to such an extent that the petitioner...
Read MoreThe provisions of mutual consent divorce has various elements attached to it and is not a simpliciter term.
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