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Spouse in Live-in-Relationship may get prosecuted for “Bigamy” In the contemporary world, the social fabric is evolving tremendously which brings about numerous effects to the relationship of humans. There was a time when a union of two souls “Marria...

Some of the major issue faced by a woman in an NRI marriage are as follows: 1. Woman married to an NRI husband, abandoned even before being taken to the foreign country of his residence. This is one of the typical instances where after a quick engage...

Noting that in a patriarchal society, it is common to cast aspersions on the moral character of a woman, the Punjab & Haryana High Court, while granting custody over a four-year-old child to her mother, recently observed thus: “Even assumin...

SIGNIFICANCE OF MARRIGE REGISTRATION IN INDIA AND COMMENTS ONPROPOSED NRI COMPULSORY REGISTRAITON OF MARRIAGE BILL, 2019 Abstract:Marriage is a socially and legally sanctioned Union, usually between a man and woman which isregulated by law, customs, ...

CASE COMMENTS: ON SATISH CHAND AHUJA VS. SNEHA AHUJA (Civil App. 2483/2020 SC) Introduction: Rosco Pound said1, “Law is social engineering which means a balance between the competing interests in society”. The Courts of law have often to do this soci...

In order to argue various aspects of the astonishing array of the doctrine which stands a marriage voidable on the ground that the consent of the deceased was obtained with fraud[1], we need to understand the meaning of fraud, its various essentials ...

Even-though Hindu Marriage Act 1955 (hereinafter to be referred as the Act) doesn’t define the term fraud but the same has been explained in Indian Contract Act which says ‘Fraud’ means and includes any of the following acts committed by a party to a...

A marriage is legal , social and religious ceremony. Marriage is for two individual so they can unit legally, economically, and emotionally. In every religion marry is recognized by certain laws. So same as  Hindu marriage is recognized by HMA that i...

Rajnesh  vs  Neha & ors. BACKGROUND: Maintenance is the legal obligation that a responsible person is supposed to pay toward the welfare and upkeep of their dependent. The following judgment is delivered in a Criminal Appeal arising out of an app...

Quash in legal parlance means to nullify, void or declare invalid; to put an end to a legal proceeding. Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, was inserted by the Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act, 1983 to safeguard women from cruelty. It is used as a ...