Author: Matrimonial Advocates

“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of the settlement executed before the Mediator and managed to get the matrimonial case instituted by the husband withdrawn and also accepted a sum of Rs. 50 lakhs from the husband as permanent alimony.”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...

The High Court found that an appellate court had reduced the monthly maintenance payable from ₹1.2 lakhs to ₹25,000 per month without any reasoning, and despite rejecting a plea to stay the interim maintenance order. The Bombay High Court recently ov...

The Kerala High Court ruled that when a Magistrate orders maintenance for a daughter under Section 20(1)(d) of the Domestic Violence Act, they must clarify whether the order is made under Section 125 of the CrPC or Section 20(3) of the Hindu Adoption...

The burden of proof is upon both of the complainant and accused, the Court said while upholding the acquittal of a man accused of rape on false promise of marriage. The Allahabad High Court recently noted that while the law on sexual offenses is righ...