Author: Matrimonial Advocates

The Delhi High Court has observed that WhatsApp conversations cannot be read as evidence without there being a proper certificate as mandated under the Evidence Act, 1872. Justice Subramonium Prasad addressed a petition from Dell International Servic...

“Such acquisition must be either by way of inheritance or devise, or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by her own skill or exertion, or by purchase or by prescription.” Supreme Court Ruling: In a case in...

“The wife took advantage of the settlement executed before the Mediator and managed to get the matrimonial case instituted by the husband withdrawn and also accepted a sum of Rs. 50 lakhs from the husband as permanent alimony.” Supreme Court: In a ci...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a wife’s refusal to engage in physical relations with her husband constitutes cruelty towards him. A bench consisting of Acting Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Amar Nath (Kesharwani) made this o...

The Madras High Court recently declared that a cohabiting arrangement between a married man and an unmarried woman does not meet the criteria for a relationship “akin to marriage,” thus denying them any marital entitlements. The court str...

The Kerala High Court has determined that a Trial Court cannot proceed with a criminal prosecution under Section 498A of the IPC without prior sanction from the Central Government when the offence of marital cruelty is committed entirely outside Indi...

The Court held that a woman, who is the sole guardian of her biological child, must be considered capable of giving up her child for adoption under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act irrespective of marital status. The Madras High Court recently...