Valid cause to live apart does not settle the question of capable wife maintenance on its own: the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a wife with sufficient cause to live separately is not, for that reason alone, entitled to maintenance if she is found capable of maintaining herself, while upholding Rs 30,000 a […]
Two FIRs by two fathers, one man named in both, and an affidavit due on November 25: the Allahabad High Court has ordered a UP STF probe into women trafficking angle in both cases, in an application that began as a plea to move a matrimonial dispute to mediation. Lucknow: The Lucknow Bench of the […]
“The welfare of the child, important as it is, cannot be treated as a substitute for the judicial inquiry required before directing DNA examination,” the Karnataka High Court has held, setting aside a Bengaluru Family Court order that had directed a DNA paternity test of a man and a minor boy in a maintenance case. […]
Is Accusing Wife Of Adultery merely because she talks to a male friend a ground for divorce? The Jharkhand High Court has said it is a gender-based stereotype that itself amounts to cruelty towards her, turning down a husband’s appeal. Ranchi: A husband who said his wife was in an extramarital relationship because she spoke […]
Does an 84-year-old father-in-law’s age end his duty to pay maintenance for a widowed daughter-in-law and her two minor sons? The Jharkhand High Court has said it does not, calling the responsibility “pious” and legal under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act. Ranchi: Rs 17,000 a month will stay payable by a father-in-law to his […]
“The non-disclosure of such relevant facts assumes significance”: the Patna High Court has refused to transfer divorce case proceedings from Patna to Begusarai, finding that the wife had not disclosed that she herself had filed several cases in Patna and lived there. Patna: The Patna High Court has dismissed a wife’s petition to transfer the […]
Hospital receipts but no doctor in the witness box: unsubstantiated mental disorder claims against a spouse amount to legal cruelty, the Karnataka High Court has observed, and a husband who relied on such papers alone could not obtain a divorce on that ground. Kalaburagi: A husband who sought divorce from his wife on the grounds […]
Jharkhand High Court grants wife divorce after holding that a husband’s insistence that she accept his extramarital relationship and live with the other woman as a “younger sister” is mental cruelty of the gravest kind, and that the Family Court’s contrary finding was perverse. Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court has dissolved the marriage of two […]
