Author: Matrimonial Advocates

The Delhi High Court has decided that in custody disputes, a parent who does not have custody of their child should have the right to visit in order to maintain their relationship. The Court stressed that shared parenting should be the usual practice...

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that the court within whose jurisdiction the first wife has taken up permanent residence after the commission of alleged offences under Sections 494 and 495 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) can try those offences. A b...

A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Justice Augustine George Masih pronounced separate but concurring judgments. Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the right of divorced Muslim women to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure ...

On July 8, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that a divorce petition can be filed on the grounds of desertion if the spouses have not resumed conjugal rights for a period of one year or more after the issuance of such a decree. A bench consisting of Just...

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...