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“The very fact that the wife had not only claimed but also accepted pendente lite maintenance during the appeal from the first husband fortifies that the marriage was not finally dissolved.” Delhi High Court’s Pronouncement on Marriage Validity...

The Court also noted that the spouses had been living separately for over ten years. While granting the divorce, the Court directed the husband to pay ₹1 crore as permanent alimony within 3 months. In a recent legal adjudication, as exemplified by th...

“During the process of reevaluating the awarded maintenance quantum in a matrimonial dispute, the Jharkhand High Court has enunciated a legal standpoint. This perspective accentuates the husband’s moral duty to provide maintenance to his ...

One party cannot unilaterally decide to walk out of a marriage and then seek divorce on the ground that they had been living seperately, the Court said. The Kerala High Court, in a recent pronouncement, has firmly established that the deficiency of c...

The Delhi High Court has articulated the position that in cases where both spouses possess commensurate qualifications and earn comparable incomes, the wife is ineligible for interim maintenance as prescribed under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Ac...

The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench, has issued a divorce decree predicated upon the wife’s noncompliance with an ex-parte decree for the restitution of conjugal rights. This judicial determination occurred in the course of the Court’...

“The Family Courts Act, 1984 was enacted pursuant to the 59th Report of the Law Commission wherein it was stressed that in dealing with the disputes concerning the family, the family court should adopt an approach radically different from that adopte...

In a case presently under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, where the finalization of the police report is pending, the Kerala High Court, in its legal disposition on Thursday, granted the accused permission to pursue higher education in Austral...

In a noteworthy legal development, the High Court of Jharkhand has overturned a prior ruling made by the family court in a case centered on the Hindu Marriage Act. The dispute revolved around the provisions of Section 25, specifically addressing matt...

In a recent judgment delivered by a Family Court in Mumbai, it was expounded that prenuptial agreements, although not accorded legal enforceability within the framework of Indian law, remain pertinent instruments for ascertaining the intentions of th...