Family Law

overnight custody of minor child
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Delhi High Court held that overnight custody was not warranted where the child had never stayed overnight with the father and required further time to acclimatise, the Court thus modified the Family Court’s order and granted the father extended daytime custody instead.

enhancement of maintenance child marriage MP High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

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Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage
Case BriefsSupreme Court

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.

maintenance of wife and daughter
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court stated that if the husband was bearing substantial expenses for the technical education of the major son, the same could not be a ground to restrict reasonable maintenance and educational support to the minor daughter.

Family and personal law April roundup 2026
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

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.

Child Access and Custody Guidelines
Case BriefsHigh Courts

With similar frameworks already emerging in other states, the Delhi High Court begins evaluating whether formal child access and parenting plan guidelines are needed.

IIDW 2026
Events & Collaborations

Day 2 underscored IIDW’s theme that resolving family and criminal disputes demands dissolving borders through collaboration, reform and mutual trust, positioning India as a dispute resolution hub.

Wife's convenience matrimonial transfer petitions
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Now the convenience of the wife/lady is not the paramount consideration for deciding the transfer applications and alternatives to transfer proceedings have been provided.”

DNA test permissible to prove adultery
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“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”.

insertion of father's name in son's school records
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Parental rights of a biological father cannot be undermined at the altar of dispute between the couple. A child should not suffer the dispute, either emotionally or educationally/ socially.”

Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Allahabad High Court emphasied that the proceedings under Section 27 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 cannot be treated as independent or standalone proceedings to result in a decree.

Kerala High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The gold given to a bride at the time of marriage is often kept by the husband or his family under the guise of safekeeping of family customs. The woman rarely gets a written record or receipt for such transfers and the woman’s access to her own ornaments can be restricted”.

concept of family eroded eviction
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court pointed out that the provisions of the Senior Citizens Act, nowhere specifically provides for drawing proceedings for eviction of persons from any premises owned or belonging to such a senior person.

Madras High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

In the present case, the primary stakeholders are the husband and wife, along with their children or relatives. Given this, the principles established in the Paradip Port Trust case would be more appropriate, and there is no scope for adopting a different view.

Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Differences of perception towards life may give rise to different behaviours by individuals. Such a difference of perception and behaviour may be described as cruel by others by observing the behaviour of another. At the same time, such perceptions are neither absolute nor such as may themselves give rise to allegations of cruelty unless observed and proven facts are such as may be recognized in law to be acts of cruelty.”

Family Law Roundup
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

Read about the significant family law matters heard and decided by the Supreme Court and High Courts in November 2024

Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The marriage between the parties becomes a fiction though supported by a legal tie. By refusing to sever that tie, the law in such cases, does not serve the sanctity of marriage; on the contrary, it shows scant regard for the feelings and emotions of the parties”

Madras High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madras High Court emphasised that the process of talaq requires strict adherence to established procedures. If the husband asserts that he has divorced his first wife by properly pronouncing talaq three times, but the wife disputes this, it raises the critical question of whether the marriage has been validly dissolved.

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The timing, duration, and whether oversight of a child counsellor is required during visitation by a non-custodial parent, is a call that the Court has to take bearing in mind, the best interest of the child.

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Delhi High Court said that in a suit for partition and possession, a relief of declaration sought by way of amendment is impermissible as it would change nature of suit.