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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

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HP HC | The findings in a proceeding under S. 125 CrPC cannot be binding on matrimonial Court while dealing with an application for divorce on the ground of res judicata

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J. remarked “there has been no matrimonial relationship between the parties for the last nearly

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If a husband stops talking to the wife, would that cause mental cruelty? P&H HC elaborates

Punjab and Haryana High Court: In a matter with regard to mental cruelty, the Division Bench of Ritu Bahri and Ashok Kumar

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If divorce is declared in one go and Fatwa is issued, Is muslim wife entitled to maintenance under S. 125 CrPC? All HC answers

Allahabad High Court: Brij Raj Singh, J., while addressing a maintenance case, observed that if a wife proves that she is unable

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Can filing of divorce petition by husband be an act of ‘Cruelty’? Bom HC elaborates

Bombay High Court: Vibha Kankanwadi, J., held that, if a husband files a divorce petition that cannot be taken as an act

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Irretrievable breakdown of Marriage: Chh HC dissolves marriage on appeal filed by husband against trial court order

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay S. Agrawal, J., reversed the judgment of the trial court and granted divorce in an application filed by

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MP HC | Woman is considered half of her husband and thus completes him. While a man is also considered incomplete without a woman; Appeal for divorce dismissed

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Vivek Rusia and Amar Nath (Kesharwani), JJ. dismissed the first appeal filed by the