The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, was enacted in 2007. The Act comes into force upon notification by the State Govts./UTs. National Council for Older Persons, which is an Apex National level Consultative body inter-alia ..
Believe or not, what you read below is true and has happened in a court in Kolkata few days before. A judge has revealed his expression of love for a small child by getting her chocolates and also deciding the case in the favour and desire of the chi ..
Children born to surrogate mothers are Indians AHMEDABAD: Children born to surrogate mothers on Indian soil are Indians, the Gujarat High Court held today. The ruling came during the hearing of a case of twins born to a German couple through a surr ..
The Delhi High Court dismissed Rohit Shekhar’s plea that he was Andhra Pradesh Governor and veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari’s biological son.The order was seen as a relief to Mr Tiwari. Rohit Shekhar is the son of former Congress party ..
A city-based Christian boy, who wanted to divorce his Hindu wife, was horrified to find that his marriage with her did not stand at all! Nilesh Narin married Kashmira Banker as per Hindu rituals in April 2002 and they were blessed with a child the fo ..
Observing that mere suspicion of a woman about her husband's affair with another woman cannot be a ground for divorce, the Bombay High Court has set aside a divorce granted to a techie and his lecturer wife by a family court in Pune. After marriage, ..
COURT GIVES HINDUS FREE HAND IN ADOPTIONHindus who have always wanted to adopt a girl even though they already have a daughter can now do just that. The Hindu adoption law prohibits same gender adoptions but, in ..
Hindus who have always wanted to adopt a girl even though they already have a daughter can now do just that. The Hindu adoption law prohibits same gender adoptions but, in a landmark judgment this week, the Bombay High Court has thrown open the legal ..
Women seeking separation from their partners on the grounds of impotence or sexual dissatisfaction has been a taboo in the society for long.But it seems there is no stigma attached to it anymore if the spurt in such cases coming to the Mahila Helpli ..