hello
I have a slightly lenghty question but please do read it. I was born in 1991, my dad passed away in 1992. In 1998 my mom re-married (Hindu marriage) one man and he had two daughters from his ex wife. In the 14 years of marriage, my mom and my dad always had fights and most of them were due to my dad's habit of having affairs with other women. In 2000 or 2001 my step dad got married to another american lady (registered marriage) for the purpose of getting a visa and convinced my mother in every way possible to accept his decision. She had no option then. The visa was not granted and the lady and my step-dad applied for annulment. After that fling, my step-dad kept on having one or the other affair every few years and my mom kept on bearing with him. Today it just hit the boiling point and he says he wants a divorce. I told him i can drag him to the court under sec. 494 IPC and my mother wants to finish this off quickly and just go for a mutual consent divorce. There is a lot of property involved and i dont want my step-dad to have a final say in teh division of property. Please advice me what to do. I am very angry with my step-father, and after 14 years, it is just not done with to expect him to change. If it is a mutual consent divorce what will be the case, and if we apply for divorce quoting bigamy, what will be the case? Kindly answer my rather lengthy question and i shall be very thankful to you.
PS. i have a very low quality xerox of my step-dad's second (illegal) marriage's marriage certificate and a cd of the actual marriage between my step-dad and my mom. I want a quick solution to this as we cant stay with that man anymore.
Thanks
Ram
