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Family Court Judge Harish Kumar accepted majority of the allegations made by Dhawan against his estranged wife and held that she subjected him to mental agony and cruelty. In a recent legal judgment rendered on Wednesday, a family court located in De...

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said that the High Court was not justified in imposing the condition on the husband to pay ₹9 lakh to his estranged wife as ad-interim compensation. In the case titled “Rohit Jaiswal vs State of ...

In the case at hand, the husband’s contradictory statements about his employment and dependency on others for income created doubt about his actual income, led to affirmation of maintenance order. In the context of a revision application challenging ...

In a recent divorce case, the Kerala High Court made a significant decision, stating that not agreeing to mutual consent in a troubled marriage is regarded as a form of cruelty. This case involved a husband who had previously tried and failed to obta...

The Court, therefore, dismissed the appeal filed by a husband challenging the June 28, 2019 order of a Family Court in Janjgir which had denied decree of divorce to him on grounds of cruelty. The Chhattisgarh High Court, in a recent judicial pronounc...

The Court also noted that making friends at the workplace or talking to them is not a cruel act or an act of ignoring the wife, particularly when the spouses were living apart due to the nature of their work. The Delhi High Court has rendered a signi...

“The condition of epilepsy is neither an incurable disease nor can it be considered a mental disorder or a psychopathic disorder, for making a ground under Section 13(1)(iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act,” the Court held. 1 In a consequentia...

The recent ruling from the Allahabad High Court underscored that within the duration of a marriage, it is incumbent upon the spouse who is the primary earner to ensure the protection of the other partner’s life, freedom, and dignity. The bench,...

In Thiruvananthapuram, on September 22nd, the Kerala High Court has stepped in and made the decision to terminate a marriage that had been facing severe difficulties for the past 38 years. The court argued that keeping a marriage intact when it had i...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently ruled that a husband cannot be held liable under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for non-consensual ‘unnatural’ sexual relations with his wife since Indian law presently does not include a...