divorce Archives

Bombay High Court | Wife being well qualified desiring to work does not amount to cruelty; Inference of desertion not to be drawn merely on grounds of living separately

Bombay High Court: In an appeal filed by husband challenging the judgment and decree of restitution of conjugal rights and

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Bombay High Court | Right to reside in shared household of husband is lost after grant of divorce; Cannot be claimed based on an earlier order

Bombay High Court: In a petition filed by Umakant Bondre/ applicant 1 (former father-in-law of respondent 1) challenging the order

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“Every major person has a right to live their life with the person of their choice”; Punjab and Haryana High Court directs Police to protect the life and liberty of a ‘Live in Relationship’ couple

Punjab and Haryana High Court: While deciding the instant petition preferred by the petitioners to seek protection from the threats

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Evidence not adduced; Maintenance application not decided: Bombay High Court remands divorce matter to Family Court

Bombay High Court: In a case filed by a wife (‘appellant') challenging the Family Court order that granted decree of

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Madhya Pradesh High Court | Minor Differences of opinion between the Husband and Wife does not amount to Cruelty

“The minor differences cannot be termed as cruelty between husband and wife. There should be no expectation of overnight change in the husband and wife. Time should be given by both of them to each other to transpose as a wife and as a husband in married life.”

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Karnataka High Court | Consent of father not a prerequisite for grant of passport of minor child in exclusive custody of mother; Visitation rights not affected

Karnataka High Court: In a case filed by the petitioner-mother (‘petitioner 2') seeking acceptance on her pending passport application for

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Chhattisgarh High Court | Customary divorce reduced into writing followed by separation would be a valid divorce when custom is proved ancient

Chhattisgarh High Court: In a case related to an appeal filed against the decision of the family Court, whereby an

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Why wait at Court’s corridor for prioritized hearing, when you can invoke the right to extra-judicial divorce? Kerala High Court tells a Muslim woman seeking divorce

Kerala High Court: In a divorce case where the Family Court had refused to hear the case on priority for early disposal,

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Consumer culture of ‘use and throw’ has influenced our matrimonial relationships also; Kerala HC expresses concern over alarming rise of divorce cases

Kerala High Court: While adjudicating a divorce case, the Division Bench of A. Muhamed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas*, JJ., raised

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Chhattisgarh High Court |Abusing in-laws and stopping the husband from meeting his parents would amount to cruelty

Chhattisgarh High Court: In a case relating to the appeal filed by the wife against the decision of the family

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Allahabad High Court | Social, Legal and Moral Responsibility of a man to maintain his wife; Appeal dismissed

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Sunita Agarwal and Om Prakash Shukla, JJ. dismissed and appeal on the admission stage itself

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One cannot seek transfer of execution proceeding under Section 125(3) CrPC to another Court once the order fixing maintenance attains finality: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: In a complex case where both the parties claimed to be disabled to get the matrimonial case transferred to the

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Does a husband comparing his wife to other women amount to mental cruelty? Kerala HC answers

Kerala High Court: In a divorce case, Anil K. Narendran and C. S. Sudha, JJ., held that constant and repeated taunts by

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If removal of husband from home is the only way to ensure domestic peace, the Courts need to pass such orders; Madras High Court directs husband to leave the house

Madras High Court: In a case of marital discord and petitioner-wife, a practicing advocate was seeking removal of respondent-husband from

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Madras High Court directs State Police to alter FIR and add Ss. 417 and 420 IPC on alleged concealment of impotency by husband pre-marriage

Madras High Court: V Sivagnanam J. directed the State police to add the offences under Sections 417 and 420 Penal

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Calcutta High Court transfers Matrimonial suit showing leniency towards wife

Calcutta High Court: Ananda Kumar Mukherjee, J. took cognizance of a petition which was preferred by the petitioner -wife praying for transfer

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Suspecting the character of spouse and making false allegations of extra marital affair in presence of colleagues/ students amount to mental cruelty; Madras High Court grants divorce

Madras High Court: A Division Bench of V. M. Velumani and S. Sounthar, JJ. granted divorce as sought by the appellant-husband on

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Does incessantly filing complaints for tarnishing one’s reputation amount to mental cruelty? Punjab & Haryana High Court answers

Punjab & Haryana High Court: While deciding an appeal arising from a divorce petition, the bench of Ritu Bahri, J. and Meenakshi

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Kerala HC | Whether husband going abroad for employment amount to desertion and cruelty? HC decides

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench comprising A. Muhamed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas, JJ., held that cruelty has to be assessed from

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Wife pressing uncorroborated allegations on husband being impotent amounts to cruelty under S. 13(1) (ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; Kar HC grants divorce

There is no straight-jacket formula when considering the term “cruelty” and it depends upon the established pleadings and evidence on record and the inference has to be drawn from the attending facts and circumstances taken cumulatively