family law

The first question after the Supreme Court recent ruling in Prakash & Ors v. Phulavati & Ors, rendered on 16 October 2015 comes to everyone’s mind is whether the Supreme Court is right in giving the ruling or not, but what matters now is not whether the Supreme Court is right or not, but whether th..

How Maintenance to wife is assessed in S.24 HMA   There are some criteria's which are set by Indian courts in order to calculate and assess maintenance to be paid by the Husband..

These days many men are affected by the final order of maintenance towards their wife and are looking for best possible legal option to reduce interim/final maintenance amount or even looking for setting aside the said amount.   The trial courts uses their own methodolo..

Flavor of the season               Yes, this is how the transfer petitions in matrimonial cases are being addressed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Every second wife is before the Supreme Court seek..

1. Dress Code Change: No doubt Indian lawyers wear power dress and we as citizens  respect the dignity of it, yet mostly the black and white combination is assigned to hotel waiters  & railway staff also  .These reasons limitise  the unique privilege to lawyer’s dress . Seldom lawyers ignore to go  in functions st..

 The most used terminology in the courts of law is “Your Honor I cannot continue this sacred relation because of the cruelty committed on me”, but the shocking and sad state of affair is that the opposite party comes with more severe allegations alleging cruelty which the makes the job of the courts impossible to decide the case and resulting int..

  This refers to certain responses to the posts dated 12th and 13th Jan 2016 on "Women Untouchability".   01) The advent of hi-tech revolution, globalization and liberalization of economy, the traditional women metamorphosed to a financially independent stable Drukers skilled worker on par with men is construed by male chauvinis..

India is a land of diversity. There is diversity observed in caste, race, religion, flora, fauna, and landform and so on. Amongst this diversity there comes the set of uniformed legal system which binds all the sticks into a single bunch. This set of legal principles are applied to all the four age-based stages of human life, which includes Bhramacharya(student),..

Iterim maintenance is awarded under s.24 of HMA, the basic purpose of interim maintenance is to provide fixed reasonable amount to the wife pending litigation, so that she could survive to fight the legal battles. But this term reasonable is a relative term, court has to keep certain factors into mind before awarding an amount of interim maintenance, Here are the..

Getting Divorce on Cruelty   The degree of proof needed to prove cruelty and getting divorce on grounds of it is fa..

“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” - Malala Yousafzai   p style="text-align: jus..

Our constitution lays down special notice state can give to women under article 15 of constitution. National commission for women and state commission are formed. Women courts have been set up .Even all-women banks and police stations have been set up. But are women really uplifted in India after 70 years of independence or our male chauvinistic society still neg..

Old Hindu law before Hindu succession act 1956   Daughter was not having right to seek share in the parents property prior to 1956. After 1956 till 2005 amendment daughters were having right to residence in the ancestral house and also would succeed to the person..

Is it not surprising that a law which was thrust upon us by a foreign power in the name of ‘social reforms' and found its way in our statute despite criticism in no fewer words from all quarters and has been deleted by the statutes from almost all civilized countries including the one which introduced it in the first place- STILL survives and flourishes..

10,9,8.....3,2,1 ready!! I'm coming out, are you guys ready. I'm out... it was dark like a wild forest with noises I had never heard before. I was walking through the corridor taking tiny steps, very very cautious so that nobody could sense me. Like snakes make their way through the forest, I made my way through the corridor. Just then I could he..