Family Law News Plea in High Court for making marital rape a ground for divorce July 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday seeking direction to the Centre to frame guidelines for registration of FIR for marital rape as also laws for making it a ground for divorce. The PIL sought that there should be a clear guideline for registration of cases related to marital rape under […] Read more » divorce High Court marital rape
Top Law News Unilateral withdrawal of consent for divorce is mental cruelty December 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Unilateral withdrawal of consent by a spouse at the time of mutual divorce without any grounds amounts to mental cruelty, the Delhi High Court has said. A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Yogesh Khanna said this while dealing with a case filed by a husband against a trial court’s order by which the couple, […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court divorce featured Law Legal News mental cruelty
Family Law News High Profile Cases Malaika, Arbaaz attend counselling session after filing for December 1, 2016 / December 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Bollywood actress Malaika Arora Khan and Arbaaz Khan attended their first counselling session after filing for divorce by mutual consent. The couple filed for divorce last month and attended the first mandatory counselling session on November 29 in Bandra Family Court. According to family court sources, on Tuesday they were given counselling in the family […] Read more » Arbaaz Khan Bandra Family Court Court divorce featured Law Legal News Malaika
High Profile Cases Affair during subsistence of marriage is cruelty: Delhi HC November 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Having an affair during subsistence of marriage by either of the spouses amounts to cruelty, the Delhi High Court has observed while setting aside a trial court’s judgement granting divorce to a man who was in an “open adulterous relationship”. A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Yogesh Khanna allowed the appeal filed by a […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court divorce featured Law Legal News marriage trial court
Consumer Law News Family Law News Top Law News HC dismisses Muslim woman’s appeal against divorce November 1, 2016 / November 1, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal by a woman seeking to set aside the “forged” ‘khula’ produced by her husband on the basis of which a cleric granted a fatwa dissolving the marriage. S Basheria submitted she was married to T C A Mohamed Yusuf, a beef merchant on August 20, 1987 as […] Read more » appeal against divorce divorce featured HC Madras High Court Muslim woman's appeal Muslim woman's appeal against divorce dismissed
Top Law News SC waives 6-month waiting period, grants divorce to couple August 14, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has allowed an estranged couple’s plea for divorce by mutual consent by waiving the waiting period of six months, exercising its powers under the Constitution to do “complete justice”. A bench of justices Kurian Joseph and Rohinton Fali Nariman granted the relief to the couple after taking into consideration their several years […] Read more » 6-month waiting period couple divorce Justices Kurian Joseph Rohinton Fali Nariman SC
Family Law News High Court quashes ex-parte divorce order, sends case to family court February 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Describing it as “erroneous”, the Bombay High Court has set aside an order of Nashik family court granting a divorce decree ex-parte to a man in the absence of his wife who did not attend the proceedings Allowing an appeal filed by the aggrieved wife against the impugned judgement of December 7, 2011, a high […] Read more » divorce ex-parte divorce order family court family court case high court bench Hindu Marriage Act Nashik family court section 13(1)(ia) (ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act
Family Law News HC quashes order giving divorce to husband exparte December 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that a court should use its discretion, the Bombay High Court has set aside an order of a civil judge in Baramati, who refused to condone the delay made by a woman in an application urging to dismiss a divorce decree granted to her husband ex-parte. Saying that this was a fit case where […] Read more » Baramati Civil Judge Bombay High Court civil judge in Baramati CROSS-EXAMINATION divorce High Court high court judge Justice Dalvi Justice Roshan Dalvi mental shock Snhel alias Nandini Ghante The High Court judge
Top Law News Marriages can be ended before cooling period: Apex court August 25, 2012 / August 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment By invoking provisions of Article 142, the dissolution of marriage through mutual consent can be permitted before the cooling period of six months under the Hindu Marriage Act, the Supreme Court has said. (15:40) “We are of the opinion that in appropriate cases invocation of such power would not be unjustified and may even prove […] Read more » apex court bench noted Article 142 Delhi-based trial court Devinder Singh Narula divorce Hindu Marriage Act Justice Altamas Kabir Justice J. Chelameswar marital obligations Marriages Marriages can be ended before cooling period: Apex court Meenakshi Nangia plea for mutual divorce statutory cooling off period
Top Law News Being called pahadi can lead you to divorce July 20, 2012 / July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If you use a word like pahadi or Bihari or any word which indicates your spouse and his/her family geographical background can lead you to the divorce path. As people are sensitive about this. The Bombay high court observed on Thursday, that a reason for a marriage breaking up was that the wife’s father referred […] Read more » Bombay High Court calling pahadi can lead to divorce causes of divorce divorce divorce on ground of using bad words
Top Law News Rs 1 crore and a flat is cost of Divorce July 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The biggest divorce settlement ever that you would not have heard till date is here. The Bombay high court has inked a historical judgement in its history by awarding a flat and Rs 1 crore as permanent alimony and maintenance to an estranged wife. A city resident will pay this whooping amount to his estranged […] Read more » biggest cost of divorce Bombay Bombay High Court cost of divorce cost of permanent alimony and maintenance divorce divorce a burden on husband Divorce against husband divorce as a curse Divorce as a punishment divorce by mutual consent divorce cases divorce cases in India family court highest cost of divorce Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice A.R. Joshi Mumbai news of Bombay News of Maharastra news of Mumbai permanent alimony and maintenance Rs 1 crore and a flat is cost of Divorce side effects of divorce unjustified divorce laws
Top Law News Supreme Court grants divorce on the basis of wife’s behaviour July 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has granted divorce to a man on the ground of mental cruelty. The court held that crumpling the husband’s ironed clothes or hiding his motorcycle keys to prevent him from going to office may appear to be naughty acts of wife, but would constitute ‘mental cruelty’ for grant of divorce. A Bench […] Read more » constituents of mental cruelty divorce divorce cases in India divorce on the basis of mental cruelty divorce on the basis of wife’s behaviour mental cruelty as a ground of divorce mental cruelty on husband by wife ruling on divorce cases Supreme court ruling on divorce cases supreme court ruling on mental cruelty what constitutes mental cruelty
