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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.
Justice Vikram Nath, a fourth-generation legal luminary and sitting Judge of the Supreme Court of India, joined the legal profession in 1987.
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.
The Court held that “as any husband, the petitioner owes a legal debt to maintain any wife like the respondent”.
The Court held that once the wife had voluntarily relinquished all monetary claims, including maintenance, revival of such claims through subsequent proceedings cannot be permitted.
A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.
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.
A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.
The Court noted that the wife had herself obtained custody of the minor daughter on the specific assertion that she was financially capable of maintaining and taking proper care of her.
The Court stated that permitting restoration on substantially the same allegations would defeat the finality of the earlier judicial orders and result in repetitive litigation.
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.
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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 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.
“A Hindu wife’s right to have maintenance from her husband’s properties originated the moment she got married to him. Her right remained dormant until denial of maintenance or initiation of legal proceedings, at which point it transformed into an inchoate right and later crystallised into a charge upon judicial declaration.”
Madras High Court said that after divorce when the spouses have ceased to be husband and wife, proprietary right of both the spouses also get affected.
The Patna High Court opined that when guidelines for providing toilets and sanitary napkin dispenser facilities for girls in schools were issued, the District Administration or the local bodies could be entrusted with the establishment and maintenance of such facilities in a seamless manner.
Keeping regard with the trend of rising prices and the basic needs getting costlier, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said that maintenance awarded by the Trial Court could not be said to be on a higher side.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. advised State Bank of India in granting financial assistance by way of a rupee term loan facility