The Appeal before the Orissa High Court was preferred under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984, read with Section 47 of the Guardians & Wards Act, 1890, by the natural father of the Respondent child. While awarding custody of the minor chi...
Read MoreWhile granting the husband (a family court judge) divorce, the High Court had earlier ordered him to pay his wife (a former Additional Advocate General) permanent alimony of ₹30 lakh. The Supreme Court recently affirmed the divorce granted to a famil...
Read MoreThe divorce granted to the husband by a family court had been stayed by a division bench of the High Court. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sentenced a man to three months’ simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹2,000 for entering into a se...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has reiterated that a High Court cannot grant anticipatory bail while refusing to quash an FIR, stressing that the accused must first apply for pre-arrest bail before the Sessions Court. “It cannot be denied that provisions of...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court observed that simply working from home does not automatically entitle a parent to child custody. The Court highlighted that parents may have to be away for work to support their family, and this should not bar them from seeking cust...
Read MoreThe Court faulted the police and the trial court for charging a man with voyeurism merely for filming a woman entering a disputed property. The Supreme Court has held that taking photographs or recording videos of a woman without her consent, while s...
Read More“Adultery can often be established through circumstantial evidence, provided the circumstances lead logically to that conclusion,” the Court said. The Kerala High Court has recently observed that allegations of adultery in a marriage may ...
Read MoreThe Court said that it must adopt a construction which secures the dignity and financial protection of a Muslim woman post her divorce. The Supreme Court on Tuesday (December 2) ruled that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to recover the cash and g...
Read MoreOnce the Court is called upon to declare that there exists a custom contrary to the codified Hindu Marriage Act, the burden of proof is heavy on the party asserting the custom, the Court stressed. The Delhi High Court held that a customary divorce am...
Read MoreThe Court indicated that unless there is cogent evidence of wilful desertion or refusal to cohabit, the marriage cannot be said to have “irretrievably broken down” for a divorce to be granted. The Supreme Court recently clarified that a d...
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