The Kerala High Court observed that the Family Courts are empowered to review maintenance orders as they are liable for enforcing the provisions under Chapter IX of the Criminal Procedure Code. Chapter IX’s objective is to provide neglected or ...
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Recently, the Karnataka High Court ruled that wife humiliating her husband by commenting on her dark-skin color amounts to cruelty. The Court further noted that the wife’s decision to distance herself from the company of her husband and to leve...
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The Kerala High Court is slated to consider pertinent questions regarding the jurisdiction of family courts when it comes to original petitions seeking relief under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. A division bench of justices A Mu...
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The Delhi High Court recently said that the family courts should not give very long adjournments while referring parties to counseling. Justice Navin Chawla observed that the family court has to also watch out for the counseling proceedings that take...
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Recently, the Calcutta High Court quashed a cheating and fraud case filed against a woman. The husband of the woman was accused of taking away precious ornaments and cell phone from her matrimonial home. A Single-Judge bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (P...
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A man who is entitled to second marriage under personal law is also bound to maintain his first wife, the Calcutta High Court observed on Monday while quashing a session court order reducing the maintenance for the first wife of the husband from ₹600...
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The Holy Quran says that the husband to look after his wife and children, especially in case they are in disablement condition, the Karnataka High Court said recently. It said this while rejecting a petition filed by a Muslim man against a maintenanc...
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When a matrimonial case involves a plea for divorce, the courts should aim to dispose of it within a period of note more than one year so that after the event of grant of a divorce decree, the parties may restructure their lives, said the High Court....
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The Patna High Court recently held that the inability to conceive a child is neither considered impotence nor a valid reason for dissolving the marriage. A two-judge bench consisting of Justice Jitendra Kumar and Justice PB Bajanthri highlighted that...
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A second wife of a man is not entitled to file a complaint against her husband or family members of the husband for cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) since she is not recognised as a legally wedded wife, the Karnataka High Cou...
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