A child of tender age needs maternal affection, nurture and care, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said in ordering the custody of six-year-old girl, who had been with her father’s family since October 2025, to be handed back to her mother. Chandigarh: On October 28, 2026, a six-and-a-half-year-old girl is to be brought […]
Producing the child before the Family Court was all the Delhi High Court needed to see in refusing contempt action against a mother, holding that a meeting falling short of the father’s expectations is not wilful disobedience. New Delhi: Declining to start contempt proceedings against a mother, the Delhi High Court has held that a […]
Visitation is a word for a guest, the Karnataka High Court has said while directing courts to use parenting time instead of visitation in child custody cases, since no parent is a visitor in a child’s life. Bengaluru: Courts should speak of parenting time, not visitation, in child custody cases, the Karnataka High Court has […]
Custody of daughter has been given to her father by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, with free access and periodic stays for the mother, on the condition that custody will revert to the mother if he remarries or enters a live-in relationship. Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted a father custody of his […]
A father’s financial strength was not enough for the Rajasthan High Court. It has ordered phased custody for the father instead, holding that a sudden separation from grandparents may disturb a seven-year-old who has lived with them since birth. Jodhpur: Instead of handing over a seven-year-old boy to his father at once, the Rajasthan High […]
The Delhi High Court has granted anticipatory bail to an elderly man accused by his daughter-in-law of sexual misconduct and other offences in a matrimonial FIR, citing the four-year delay in the complaint, the absence of specific dates, and the lack of any real need for custodial interrogation, while cautioning that its observations are only for bail.
A parent facing prosecution under the POCSO Act cannot be considered entitled to the custody of the children, the Supreme Court held, staying a Delhi High Court order that had given a father sole custody, and permitting the mother to relocate the two minor children to the United Kingdom for their schooling. New Delhi: The […]
Warning that false accusations of child sexual abuse levelled by one parent against the other in custody disputes are on the rise, the Supreme Court has laid down safeguards to prevent the misuse of the POCSO Act. Before coercive action is taken on such a complaint arising against a matrimonial backdrop, a Special Court should ordinarily obtain an expert psychological evaluation of the child. On the facts, the Court quashed a false case against a father and directed the child’s re-integration with him.
A couple who had raised a child from days after his premature birth, under a notarised adoption deed, lost his custody when they approached the Child Welfare Committee to regularise the adoption for school admission. The Calcutta High Court held that the CWC has no jurisdiction over a child who is neither an orphan nor abandoned nor in need of care and protection, and directed the child returned to the couple, subject to their obtaining a proper court declaration and quarterly welfare monitoring.
