Levirate Marriage Archives

Family Law Cases 2025: How Indian Courts Balanced Justice and Misuse

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.

Case Briefs High Courts

Section 125 CrPC | Levirate Marriages validated by custom, cohabitation, social acceptance, and the birth of children, must be treated as valid: Patna High Court

The Court held that a woman having lived as a wife, borne children, and been deserted without support, falls within the protective umbrella of Section 125 CrPC and the technical plea of invalidity of marriage cannot be a valid ground to deny her maintenance.