A divorce petition can contain fifty allegations. The court still needs proof. Here is how cruelty, desertion and adultery are proved—and how false, exaggerated or self-created claims can be legally defeated. NEW DELHI: A Uniform Civil Code promises ...
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Scope of Supreme Court powers under Article 142 to grant divorce beyond rigid statutory requirements. NEW DELHI: Not every marriage ends with a clear legal ground like cruelty or adultery. Many marriages simply stop functioning. Two people live separ...
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Thousands of NRIs walk out of UK courts thinking it’s over, only to face fresh battles in India. The real law doesn’t end your marriage where you think it does, it starts testing it. NEW DELHI: Most Indian NRIs approach divorce in the UK with a strai...
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Many husbands assume infidelity ends financial liability. The law says otherwise and the difference between morality and statutory wording is where most men lose their cases. NEW DELHI: When adultery enters a marriage dispute, one question dominates ...
Read MoreWhen no declaration is sought regarding illegitimacy of the child and the issue only relates to adultery of the wife, DNA test can be ordered, the Court said. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has confirmed a lower court’s directive allowing a husb...
Read More“Adultery can often be established through circumstantial evidence, provided the circumstances lead logically to that conclusion,” the Court said. The Kerala High Court has recently observed that allegations of adultery in a marriage may ...
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Adultery is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as “voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender's husband or wife.” Adultery committed by two persons each of whom is married to another as distinguished from “s...
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