Author: Matrimonial Advocates

Long-standing frustrations from non-custodial parents—often fathers—over limited access to their children have driven the push for change. On Friday in Tokyo, Japanese lawmakers passed a bill allowing for the option of joint custody after divorce. Fo...

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that orders issued under Section 125 of the CrPC, whether final or interim, can be recalled or modified under Section 127 of the CrPC. Therefore, the restriction imposed by Section 362 CrPC does not apply in these c...

Presents received by the bride or the bridegroom at the time of marriage are not treated as dowry under the Dowry Prohibition Act. The Allahabad High Court recently highlighted the prevalent non-compliance with a rule under the Dowry Prohibition (Mai...

The appeal of a wife challenging the divorce decree granted to the couple under the Hindu Marriage Act was dismissed by the Punjab & Haryana High Court. The court stated that demanding the husband to forsake his elderly mother, aged around 75, an...

The constitutional morality and social morality in the “matter of marriage institution” are required to be balanced, the Court said while sending a Muslim man’s Hindu live-in partner to her parents. In a recent ruling, the Allahabad High Court ...

Therefore, single-judge Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta refused to discharge a rape accused even after the DNA report concluded that he was not the biological father of the victim’s child. On Monday, the Calcutta High Court made a significant ruling, ...

The Madras High Court addressed a Habeas Corpus petition brought by the biological mother of a young child seeking custody of her son. Diagnosed with HIV during pregnancy, the mother temporarily placed the three-year-old boy in the care of the fifth ...

As dignity of a woman is to be protected, it should be ensured that women are not compelled to incur unnecessary expenditure and face hardships, the Court underlined. The recent ruling by the Calcutta High Court in the case of Partha Sakha Maity vs B...

In dismissing a criminal case brought by a wife against her husband under Section 498A IPC, the Supreme Court has called upon the Legislature to consider essential amendments to Sections 85 and 86 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, before implemen...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently made significant observations regarding the legal status of marital rape in India. The court emphasized that under current Indian law, including the absence of recognition of ‘Marital rape’ as an off...