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Section 125 of CrPC has not been introduced to create an army of idle or inactive people waiting for maintenance to be awarded from the income of the other spouse, the Court said. The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Tuesday, emphasized that well-qualif...

A Bench headed by Justice BR Gavai made this observation during a hearing on a matrimonial dispute concerning maintenance. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court remarked that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with cruelty towards married w...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court emphasized that the duty to provide maintenance to parents is not dependent on the amount of property given to children; children are obligated to support their parents. The Court was reviewing a Writ Petition under Arti...

The Court declared the marriage null and void on the grounds of mental and physical cruelty, as the wife, being a minor, was not prepared to fulfill marital obligations. Madhya Pradesh High Court: In an appeal filed by the appellant (wife) under Sect...

“Merely because the woman may have made that choice cannot be concluded to mean that she had separated from her matrimonial home without reasonable cause or that she would have sufficient means to survive on her own.” Allahabad High Court: The divisi...

The Allahabad High Court ruled that no spouse should be compelled to stay in a marriage under the threat of false criminal charges. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court, overturning a lower court’s decision, ruled that no spouse should be compel...

The Court said that if it were to accept an argument that neither the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act nor the CPC provide for the award of such maintenance, “the wife would be thrown to the wolves.” The Madras High Court has ruled that...

The Court was addressing a case in which it determined that a woman had made reckless allegations of dowry harassment against her estranged husband, who was seeking a divorce. The Allahabad High Court recently observed that no spouse, irrespective of...

The Court explained that the Visa Manual, 2021 mandated the presence of the Indian spouse for an interview by the authorities to ascertain that it was not a sham marriage. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the physical or virtual presence of an I...

The Supreme Court of India reprimanded a lawyer representing the Maharashtra government in a land compensation case for submitting an affidavit considered “contemptuous” by a senior IAS officer. The court asserted that the lawyer should n...