The Madras High Court ruled that a wife’s act of secretly arranging their daughter’s marriage without informing the father amounts to mental cruelty under matrimonial law, and granted divorce after finding her conduct caused distress preventing continuation thereafter.
The Orissa High Court ruled that a father’s custody claim cannot be rejected only because he did not submit the wife’s death certificate and the child’s birth certificate, set-a siding the Family Court’s technical grounds for denial.
On Tuesday( 20th August),The Supreme Court of India ruled in favor of a father in a custody battle, ordering his sisters-in-law to hand over his three-year-old daughter. The court emphasized that the child’s welfare and the father’s natural guardianship were paramount.
