Author: Matrimonial Advocates

 The Allahabad High Court deliberated that legitimate romantic affiliations between individuals, irrespective of their status as minors or nearing legal majority, endure impervious to stringent regulatory frameworks or governmental oversight. In its ...

The Delhi High Court has recently issued a significant verdict, granting divorce to a man on the grounds of cruelty inflicted by his wife, allegedly due to her continued allegiance to her parents at the expense of their marital relationship. In a dec...

 In its adjudication, the Bombay High Court nullified a domestic violence claim levied against the married sister-in-law of the plaintiff. The court’s rationale rested on the determination that the sister-in-law’s sporadic visits to the p...

The sessions court at Dindoshi upheld a 2015 order of a magistrate rejecting the wife’s complaint that the husband suppressed the mental illness of her mother-in-law. In a recent adjudication, a Mumbai court exonerated an individual charged und...

The Gauhati High Court has recently annulled a directive issued by the Family Court, mandating the husband to provide his wife with interim maintenance of Rs. 5,000 per month. This decision stems from the non-submission of asset and liability disclos...

The Delhi High Court has recognized that if a spouse is ordered to restore conjugal rights, they can still apply for divorce under Section 13 (1A)(ii) of the Hindu Marriage Act. In a recent case, the wife appealed under Section 19(1) of the Family Co...

In a significant legal ruling, the Family Court of Jabalpur district, operating within the jurisdiction of Madhya Pradesh and presided over by Chief Justice K N Singh, has established that a spouse who chooses not to reside with their marital partner...

A division bench of Justices AS Chandurkar and Jitendra Jain observed that the first information report (FIR) seemed to have been lodged only as a counterblast to the matrimonial dispute between the husband and wife. In a recent judgment, the Bombay ...

The Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, tabled in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday, includes provisions for the legal recognition of progeny born from cohabitational arrangements, among other stipulations. One of the provisions outlined in ...

Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code deals with cruelty against married women and imposes penalties like jail time or fines on offenders. Recently, the Bombay High Court instructed the Under Secretary of Women and Child Development, Government of Ma...