Learned members,
I came across this peculiar case these days want to know how such a case can be dealt in the eye of law.
There is a person X, widower married a year back to a lady Y divorcee, with a mutual understanding that Y should look after the kid of X’s first wife at the time of marriage. But the life went topsy turvy when Y conceived.
Y started torturing X in all terms possible for ex: Y neither wants X to look after the kid of first wife nor wants X to look after his parents. She needs a justification each and every penny spent on both his parents and kid. She went on telling something like she married X only to get pregnant and have kids not for a lifelong relationship with X. If at all X wants to have a lifelong relationship then X should abandon his relationship with his parents and kid.
She started creating havoc in the lives of all family members of X. X has yet to get married sibling, Y was getting all the contact numbers of all the prospective matches, calling them and telling that the sibling is not good, their family is not good and all such nonsense things. She also went to extent of insulting X friends and also insulting all the family members in others presence and what not. She has become a headache to their family. X got fed up of all the happenings and both spoke about divorce on the grounds that she disagreed to look after the first wife’s kid before the birth of baby. In the meanwhile Y gave birth to a baby girl. Both of them are living in the same house.
X does not want to stay with her at any cost since he fears that the relationships with his parents will be spoilt. Now he wants to get divorced and does not know how to proceed because he is unsure how determined Y is about getting divorce. I do not know if X has any evidence of the harassment Y gave him. He does not want to defame her nor he wants to get defamed. Also it’s only a year they got married, they got married in August
Y was earlier divorced with the same background, she fought with him and got divorced.
Need Advice on the following:
· How should X proceed for a divorce in such a situation?
· How many years will it take to get divorced from Y?
· If at all it’s a mutual consent are there any chances Y can defame X?
· Does X needs to pay any maintenance to Y and her baby? Y is employed by the way.
· Will the divorce proceeding go without any damage to the X’s prestige? But he is very sure that life will not be peaceful with Y.
Please advice on above doubts
Thanks in Advance
Tejat