Hello Experts,
My wife and I are senior citizens and we need your advice on the issues that we are facing current. I will describe the situations in the form of points for easy
understanding:
1. My wife and I co-own the house and have bought the house in 2001.
2. My wife is a house-wife and I am working in a reputed engineering firm.
3. In 2004, my elder son got married and continued to remain in our flat. He didn't own a house at the time of marriage.
4. In 2007, he bought the house just behind our building but didn't shift. The reason was he bought the house and gave it on rent. The money received through rent was used to repay home loan EMI. My son has been single handedly paying all the EMIs.
5. Soon after marital discord started between him and his wife. His wife started harassing, abusing,humiliating and troubling us and my son a lot. She used to call police on false pretexts with an intention of damaging our reputation in the society. Police on all the occassions didn't find substance in her complaints and didn't take any actions in the past. We used to remain under tremendous stress and it was becoming increasingly difficult to cope with the daily humiliations. It also deteriorated our health. Please note that I am a heart patient and my wife is a cancer survivor. My elder son was not involved in this harassments as his he was being subjected to mental harrassment by his wife anyways.
6. As a result, my younger song and daughter-in-law requested us to move along with them. Hoping that our movement would calm down the situations between my eldger son and his wife. My younger son stays very close to our house. We shifted to our younger son's residence in Oct'2012.
7. As we never wanted to be burden on our younger son, we decided to take a separate residence on rent in the vicinity where we shifted in July'13.
8. My son is parallely planning to start his divorce proceedings
Queries:
1. Can we file a damage suit against my son and DIL (as we can't do it against my DIL alone) of extreme mental harassment, humility and damage to repuration in the society? We want to ask a compensation as well for this to secure our future as I am already retired and taken up a job to support my wife and myself.
2. Shoud it be a civil or criminal case?
3. Will it affect my son's divorce case?
4. What is the success rate of such cases?
