Hi Experts,
I am an Indian origin British Citizen based in UK and my wife is from India . we got married in Delhi,India in April 2012.My wife is well educated .
I am separated from my wife who is now based in India now since Oct,2014. Initially wife's side gave threats to put false cases unless i pay them huge alimony but now after months of negotiation they have agreed for mutual consent divorce wihout any alimony. We asked
them to prepare a mutual consent draft petition and send it to us which they have. My questions are:
1) I understand that for mutual consent divorce i will have to come down to India. But some lawyers are saying it is not advisable to come down to India as this might be a trap to bring me down to India and get me arrested by putting false cases and then extorting money from me and my family.
Some lawyers are saying that by giving power of attorney to my parents/siblings divorce can be done without me having to travel to India. Is mutual consent divorce possible by giving power or attorney? Should i ask them to file exparte divorce?
2) Is there any precautions i can take before travelling to India to safeguard against false cases registed against me?.Currently they have not registered any cases uptill now.
3) In the petition they have asked to return all jewellery gifts given to me and my family but have not listed the items . Should we ask for an itemized list of articles to be included in the appendix which they expect to be returned? Is the value of the articles also need to be listed?
Any help would be great. Thank you.