Author: Matrimonial Advocates

The Allahabad High Court ruled that no spouse should be compelled to stay in a marriage under the threat of false criminal charges. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court, overturning a lower court’s decision, ruled that no spouse should be compel...

The Court said that if it were to accept an argument that neither the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act nor the CPC provide for the award of such maintenance, “the wife would be thrown to the wolves.” The Madras High Court has ruled that...

The Court was addressing a case in which it determined that a woman had made reckless allegations of dowry harassment against her estranged husband, who was seeking a divorce. The Allahabad High Court recently observed that no spouse, irrespective of...

The Court explained that the Visa Manual, 2021 mandated the presence of the Indian spouse for an interview by the authorities to ascertain that it was not a sham marriage. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the physical or virtual presence of an I...

The Supreme Court of India reprimanded a lawyer representing the Maharashtra government in a land compensation case for submitting an affidavit considered “contemptuous” by a senior IAS officer. The court asserted that the lawyer should n...

The Allahabad High Court recently observed that if a wife refuses to live with her husband and forces him to stay in a separate room, she is denying him his conjugal rights, which constitutes cruelty. The Division Bench of Justice Ranjan Roy and Just...

“A Hindu marriage is a sacrament and not just a social contract where one partner abandons the other without reason or just cause or existing or valid circumstance necessitating that conduct, the sacrament loses its soul and spirit, though it may con...

The Allahabad High Court ruled that courts should not base alimony decisions solely on the parties’ pay packages. The Court upheld the family court’s decision to grant permanent alimony to the wife, noting that the husband had legally rem...

The Bill states that the existing Act is prone to misuse, facilitating underage or forced marriages without the consent of the parties involved. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Assam presented a new Bill in the State Assembly on Thursd...