Family Law News Top Law News Widow Can Claim Absolute Right on ‘Maintenance’ Property: SC November 14, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The right to maintenance of a Hindu widow is not a “mere formality” but a spiritual and moral right that can be judicially enforced upon by claiming “absolute right” on the property given to her for sustaining herself, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench, headed by Justice M Y Eqbal, while upholding a Andhra […] Read more » Absolute Right on 'Maintenance' Property featured Justice C Nagappan justice M Y Eqbal Widow Can Claim Absolute Right Widow Can Claim Absolute Right on 'Maintenance'
Family Law News Top Law News Marriages without priest cannot be declared as illegal: HC November 10, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nearly 50 years after Tamil Nadu government legalised “self-respect” marriages which are conducted without a priest the Madras High Court has upheld the amendment made in the year 1968 to simplify Hindu marriages. Dismissing a PIL filed by A Asuvathaman, an advocate, against the amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act, the first bench comprising Chief […] Read more » Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul featured HC Hindu Marriages Act Justice T S Sivagnanam legalising self-respect marriages Marriages without priest Marriages without priest cannot be declared as illegal PIL filed by A Asuvathaman
Family Law News Top Law News Supreme Court Seeks Status on Uniform Civil Code in Country October 14, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has granted three weeks time to the government to come up with a proposal to amend the Divorce Act and inform it whether it was willing to bring the Uniform Civil Code in the country. “We have requested the Solicitor General, who is present in Court, to look into the matter. He […] Read more » amend the Divorce Act Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh Justice Shiva Kirti Singh Justice Vikramjit Sen
Criminal Law News Family Law News Sessions court pulls up trial court for perverse order July 23, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A sessions court has pulled up a magisterial court for framing of charges against a man in a domestic violence case saying the order is “perverse and cannot be sustained” as on similar allegations his mother has been discharged. “I wonder how the Metropolitan Magistrate has directed framing of charges against petitioner (man) when allegations […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi domestic violence case featured Law Legal News Sessions court Sessions court pulls up trial court for perverse order trial court
Family Law News Top Law News In-laws can’t be burdened with liability towards woman: Court June 18, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment In-laws cannot be burdened with any kind of liability towards a woman, whether directly or indirectly, and all such responsibilities should be of her husband, a Delhi court has said. The court’s observations came on an appeal filed by the father-in-law of a woman, in a domestic violence case, against a trial court order directing […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala Court Delhi domestic violence case featured In-laws can't be burdened with liability towards woman: Court Law Legal News news trial court
Family Law News Top Law News Maternity leave is to protect workers’ health: HC June 12, 2015 / June 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ruling that maternity leave is given for protection of the health of women government workers, the Madras High court on Thursday stayed the order of Joint Director of School Education (personnel) for recovering over Rs two lakh from the salary of a teacher who took 179 days maternity leave for her second delivery. The woman […] Read more » featured Maternity leave protect workers' health
Family Law News Minor can’t be kept in protection home without consent: HC June 6, 2015 / June 6, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Even a minor cannot be forced to live in a protection home without her consent, the Allahabad High Court has observed, while directing that a girl be released from a state-run facility here. The Lucknow bench of Justices Shabihul Hasnain and Shashi Kant gave the order on a Habeas Corpus petition filed by the girl’s […] Read more » Allahabad High Court featured High Court High Court Lucknow bench Justice Shabihul Hasnain Justice Shashi Kant Law Legal News Lucknow bench Minor can't be kept in protection home without consent: HC news
Family Law News HC gives bail to retired cop in harassment case June 4, 2015 / June 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a retired police personnel from Bahrain in a case filed against him by his daughter-in-law for alleged harassment. Justice V L Achliya granted bail on a surety of Rs 15,000 to Bahrain resident and a retired police personnel Ilyas Beg after observing that the allegations in […] Read more » Bombay High Court dowry harassment Family Law News featured HC gives bail to retired Bahrain cop in harassment case HC gives bail to retired cop in harassment case High Court Justice V L Achliya Law News Legal News news
Family Law News Top Law News All married women’s suicides can’t be due to harrassment: Court March 31, 2015 / April 2, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on All married women’s suicides can’t be due to harrassment: Court cannot be presumed to have been caused by harassment by the husbands or in-laws, a Delhi court said on Monday and acquitted a man giving him the benefit of doubt. “Minor incidents of beatings on small issues can take place in any household and it would be unsafe and rather hazardous to unnecessarily over-stretch these […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Manoj Jain death due to harrassment Every suicide by married women married women's suicides women's suicides women's suicides can't be due to harrassment
Family Law News Child Marriage Prevention Act secular in nature: HC March 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High court bench here today ruled that Child Marriage Prevention Act was secular in nature and Muslims could not rely on their personal law to claim the right to give minor girls in marriage even at the age of 15 presuming that the girl had attained puberty. , dismissing an appeal against an […] Read more » Child Marriage Prevention Act Justice C.T.Selvam Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006
Family Law News HC junks plea to register live-in cases as cheating February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the government to keep the cases of live-in relationships out of the purview of the crime of rape under the Indian Penal Code. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw dismissed the plea which said that the complaint […] Read more » Delhi High Court live-in cases live-in cases as cheating live-in cases not as rape plea to register live-in cases
Family Law News Husband cannot shirk liability to maintain wife: Court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The husband cannot shirk his liability to maintain his wife on the pretext that she is qualified and competent enough to take a suitable job, a Delhi court has observed while directing a man to pay his estranged wife a monthly interim maintenance in a domestic violence case. Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta directed the […] Read more » Court Domestic Violence Act' Husband cannot shirk liability to maintain wife Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta
