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The September 2026 Roundup of Family and Personal Law contains important rulings and judgments from the Supreme Court and High Courts across India, covering custody of minor children, divorce, domestic violence, maintenance rights and other significant aspects of family law.
Rejecting a husband’s revision, the Allahabad HC holds that money is the only soothing legal balm for wife, she can’t be allowed to resign to destiny.
The August Roundup of Family and Personal Law contains important rulings and judgements from the Courts all over, on Live-In Relationships, marriage, divorce, maintenance rights under Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and more.
Delhi High Court noted that the conduct of the husband in pursuing a petition under Sections 13(1A) and 13(1)(ib) of the HMA, without making any sincere effort to resume cohabitation and by frustrating the wife’s attempts to execute the decree for restitution of conjugal rights, clearly demonstrated that his sole objective was to secure a decree of dissolution of marriage under the said provisions, without any genuine intention of restoring the matrimonial relationship.
The July Roundup of Family and Personal Law contains important rulings and judgements from the Courts all over, on succession rights, marriage, divorce, inheritance rights under Oraon customary law and more.
Neither a divorce nor a marriage can be conducted through a notarised agreement, the Madhya Pradesh High Court holds, dismissing a family pension claim by a man who could not prove he was ever legally married to a deceased Tribal Affairs Department employee.
The Delhi High Court had held that seeking hotel stay and call record details to prove the charge of adultery would not violate right to privacy.
The June Roundup of Family and Personal Law contains important rulings and judgements from the Courts all over, on marriage, divorce, maintenance, child custody, probate and mutation proceedings.
The Court held that the marriage was dead for all practical purposes, warranting to be nullified under Article 142 to grant a decree of divorce.
Explore the key family law developments of May 2026, featuring significant decisions of the Supreme Court and various High Courts on maintenance, matrimonial rights, residence disputes, child marriage, guardianship, divorce, succession and child custody.
The Allahabad High Court declares Lok Adalats cannot assume the exclusive jurisdiction of Family Courts to grant divorce, criticises DLSA for mechanical and cryptic orders, and directs judgment to be circulated to all Lok Adalats and DLSAs across Uttar Pradesh.
Delhi High Court held that a second wife cannot seek impleadment in maintenance proceedings under Section 125 CrPC between the husband, first wife, and children, observing that such proceedings are limited in scope and impleadment would unnecessarily widen the lis.
The April Roundup of Family and Personal Law contains important rulings and judgements from the Courts all over, on marriage, divorce, maintenance, child custody, guardianship and waqf.
The jurisprudence pertaining to the grant of divorce under Article 142(1) on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage has been developed with caution through various judgments.
The Court held that there was no error in the jurisdiction or reasoning in the impugned order because as per admitted income of the wife, her monthly income would be Rs 1.66 lakhs, and even if it had been reduced, it would still be 1.25 lakhs.
This month saw several significant rulings from the Supreme Court and High Courts on custody, maintenance, adoption, property disputes, and personal law.
Explore the key family law developments of January 2026, featuring the Supreme Court and various High Courts on adoption, annulment of marriage, custody, divorce, maintenance and much more.
“In case where necessary pleadings are there and no declaration is sought regarding illegitimacy of the child and the issue only relates to adultery of the wife, then in appropriate cases, a DNA test can be ordered, if there are sufficient pleadings of non-access”.
“So far as the medical examination to ascertain whether the wife has ever entered into a sexual relationship or not, is concerned, it is nothing but seeking a virginity test of the wife, in other words.”
This legal roundup travels across various Courts to discuss top Family Law cases from 2025, such as admissibility of Recorded Spousal Conversations Admissible as Evidence, False Cases, Ratan Tata’s Will, Yuzvendra Chahal’s Divorce, Saif Ali Khan’s Ancestral Property, and much more.