The Court allowed the appeal filed by the wife after finding that she was kept in the dark about a 2009 divorce decree. The Supreme Court recently condoned the delay in a woman’s challenge to an ex-parte divorce decree, noting that she had remained u...
Read MoreDowry and mehr now co-exist in Muslim marriages, the Court lamented On December 15, the Supreme Court issued a series of general directions to address the social evil of dowry deaths. It also overturned an Allahabad High Court judgment that had acqui...
Read MoreLong period of separation without any hope for reconciliation amounts to cruelty to both the parties, the Court observed. Observing that courts should not keep alive a marriage that survives only in form, the Supreme Court on Monday (December 15) dis...
Read MoreWhile granting the husband (a family court judge) divorce, the High Court had earlier ordered him to pay his wife (a former Additional Advocate General) permanent alimony of ₹30 lakh. The Supreme Court recently affirmed the divorce granted to a famil...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has reiterated that a High Court cannot grant anticipatory bail while refusing to quash an FIR, stressing that the accused must first apply for pre-arrest bail before the Sessions Court. “It cannot be denied that provisions of...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court observed that simply working from home does not automatically entitle a parent to child custody. The Court highlighted that parents may have to be away for work to support their family, and this should not bar them from seeking cust...
Read MoreThe Court faulted the police and the trial court for charging a man with voyeurism merely for filming a woman entering a disputed property. The Supreme Court has held that taking photographs or recording videos of a woman without her consent, while s...
Read MoreThe Court said that it must adopt a construction which secures the dignity and financial protection of a Muslim woman post her divorce. The Supreme Court on Tuesday (December 2) ruled that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to recover the cash and g...
Read MoreThe Court indicated that unless there is cogent evidence of wilful desertion or refusal to cohabit, the marriage cannot be said to have “irretrievably broken down” for a divorce to be granted. The Supreme Court recently clarified that a d...
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As per the guidelines, the cases registered under Section 498-A of Indian Penal Code (IPC) are required to be referred to the Family Welfare Committee of the concerned district for settlement of the issues. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the n...
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