Dear Swetha,
There is nothing which can force you to give your consent to Divorce. Here I would like to clarify that no one gives a divorce to other or send Divorce to opposite party but there is a court which after determination of grounds for a genuine Divorce Gives its decision to grant a decree of Divorce.
If you have not done anything wrong and you were forced to reside separately from your husband because of the cruelty done to you by your in-laws and husband you do have a right to live separate on your husband’s cost and also get maintenance from him for you and your child both provided you are not self efficient to earn your two ends meet. However, it is the courts discretionary power that whether it allows you maintenance for life long or for a certain period of time so that you can get self strengthened to meet your needs as it happens in the case with most of well educated females who at first are simple housewives but later by using their educational back ground start earning themselves and meet their all requirements of life.
Your saying that your husband should start living with you and in separate accommodation from his parents is a wrong notion you cannot force him to leave his parents and if you raise this point it also can be treated as a good point of cruelty by you upon your husband and only on this ground alone he can get Divorce from you through Court please note. By this your saying that you have not done anything wrong gets disprove and what I think you have your own way to think the things which in fact are not and are even not justified in the eyes of law even. This of your wish that your husband should reside separately from his parents is such a good example of your wrong thinking, which you think is a right, but is not. So be rational and justify yourself against the mirror of equity only then you will able to justify yourself. However I don’t mean that all wrongs are there with you only. No not at all, I can realize well that when a wife leaves her house how she feels and what it affects her child’s growth and her mind, both As I believe female is always considered to be a first to sacrifice on her own and family life fronts. Don’t be scared of all this but have patience, if you have not done any thing wrong nothing wrong will happen with you.
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Anand Bali, Adv.
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