NRI divorce

Marriage is solemnized in Church not Divorce. It appears that your marriage was solemnized according to christian laws and for divorce one has to present petition in District Court, and not the church.

The marriage has been registered in civil registration office ..can I file a complaint in police station that he is not contacting us and planning to ditch us and marry someone else

Divorce in a church is invalid and illegal. It has to be decreed by civil (district) Court only.

If you are not interested in divorce (as desired by your husband) contest the same.

Have you filed a case for maintenace for yourself and children ? If not, move to your area Family Court or Magistrate through a local prudent lawyer.

However, if you are located in Delhi and feel, may contact me (on appointment) at:
Ch. No 647, 6th Floor, Lawyer's Chamber Block, Dwarka Courts Complex, New Delhi-110075 
Cell # 9891152939 email: majjagdish@yahoo.com 

The marriage registered at civil registration office, doesn't clarify under which law it was solemnized and registered. The valid marriage between a Hindu and Christian can be solemnized and registered either under the Special Marriage Act,1954 and even under the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872. Secondly in either cases the divorce can be obtained from the competent court which is the district family court. Now how the church in India comes in play for dissolution of the marriage. Even if marriage was solemnized according to the Indian Christian Marriage Act, the dissolution of the marriage is through the competent Family court under the Divorce Act, 1869 only.

The peculiar feature of Christian marriage is that a husband can divorce his wife only on the grounds of adultery, but it does not give rights to wife to divorce her husband even on that ground unless the husband adultery is coupled with cruelty, bigamy and desertion etc, at the most she can asked for judicial seperation.The only grounds for a christian wife to petition for divorce are husband's conversion to other religion coupled with marriage with another woman or husband's guilty of rape, sodomy or beastiality. There is a need to look afreash in this anachronistic Christian Matrimonial laws in India.Thus, it will not be easy for your husband to divorce you without any proof of adultery on your part. 

The Divorce Act,1869 was amended in 2001, the provision of divorce as provided under section 10 of the Act were amended and number of new grounds for divorce added for both husband and wife which were also available to couples married according to Hindu Marriage Act as well the Special Marriage Act. The section 10A was added were divorce by mutual consent was also introduced. Any wrong information provided here by anyone about divorce for Indian Christians is wrong and misguiding. The dissolution of marriage for Christian marriages are now as simple for both husband and wife as it was for other marriages.

I have got many Christian couples divorced according to new divorce provisions available in the amended Divorce Act,1869.

any good lawyer in Goa?

Thanks for the informations  Vijay Raj Mahajan,  I was not aware of the new Amendments, and it's really good to know that it has been amended.. 

Good lawyer in Goa or anywhere who keeps his legal information and knowledge up to date otherwise no use going with anyone just like that. You need lot of ground work to find one in Goa.

 

Need not play in the hands of husband.  Just refuse for divorce as you are not interested. As he desires divorce, let him take legal steps to obtain it.  It is not that much easy to get divorce, if another spouse is not willing and unless you give your free consent for mutual consent divorce.  Next financial difficulties you and your children are facing.  File Section 125 cr.P.C. and get handsome maintenance every month.  The requirement is that you should provide his address so that court notice has to be served and also his employer's address (notice can be served through employer, if you do not know his residential address).  The court will pass directions to his employer that to deduct your maintenance amount from his salary and deposit it in your bank account.