The Court allowed the appeal filed by the wife after finding that she was kept in the dark about a 2009 divorce decree. The Supreme Court recently condoned the delay in a woman’s challenge to an ex-parte divorce decree, noting that she had remained u...
Read MoreDowry and mehr now co-exist in Muslim marriages, the Court lamented On December 15, the Supreme Court issued a series of general directions to address the social evil of dowry deaths. It also overturned an Allahabad High Court judgment that had acqui...
Read MoreLong period of separation without any hope for reconciliation amounts to cruelty to both the parties, the Court observed. Observing that courts should not keep alive a marriage that survives only in form, the Supreme Court on Monday (December 15) dis...
Read MoreThe Court issued multiple directions to governments, courts and authorities to address awareness, enforcement and long-pending cases relating to dowry harassment and deaths. In a strongly worded judgment delivered on Monday, the Supreme Court undersc...
Read MoreThe Delhi High Court modified a Family Court’s maintenance order, reducing the husband’s monthly maintenance payable to his estranged wife from ₹25,000 to ₹17,000. While holding that the husband’s income tax return for AY 2018–19 was the appropriate ...
Read MoreThe Appeal before the Orissa High Court was preferred under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984, read with Section 47 of the Guardians & Wards Act, 1890, by the natural father of the Respondent child. While awarding custody of the minor chi...
Read MoreWhile granting the husband (a family court judge) divorce, the High Court had earlier ordered him to pay his wife (a former Additional Advocate General) permanent alimony of ₹30 lakh. The Supreme Court recently affirmed the divorce granted to a famil...
Read MoreThe divorce granted to the husband by a family court had been stayed by a division bench of the High Court. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sentenced a man to three months’ simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹2,000 for entering into a se...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has reiterated that a High Court cannot grant anticipatory bail while refusing to quash an FIR, stressing that the accused must first apply for pre-arrest bail before the Sessions Court. “It cannot be denied that provisions of...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court observed that simply working from home does not automatically entitle a parent to child custody. The Court highlighted that parents may have to be away for work to support their family, and this should not bar them from seeking cust...
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