family law

Human relationships are complex and fragile. Sometimes, or increasingly of late, after seeing each other exclusively for a while, they talk about the possibility of co-habiting or living together before even contemplating marriage.   Of cour..

INTRODUCTON:   Sex selection is matter of global concern. In the last three decades, 12.5 million cases of female foeticide have been reported in India while according to unof..

"Marriages are made in heaven"� though sometimes even god does make a mistake and that's why today the courts are flooded with various petitions either for judicial separation or divorce. Marriage which was once considered a life-time commitment between two persons does not hold the same sacred value in today's society. Despite the fact that a H..

Where there is a Will, there is a way..   High property prices and fragmented families have increased inheritance disputes often results in bitter feuds and lengthy Court battles bringing family bitterness. p style="text-..

Adultery may be defined as a voluntary sexual intercourse by a married person with a partner other than his/her spouse. Therefore, the definition of adultery brings out a few ingredients, which are:   a. It is a voluntary act of the parties. A forceful act cannot be termed as adult..

INTRODUCTION   Sucession is the transmission of property belonging to a person at his death to some other person or persons.   Succession and Inheritance can be of two kinds &nda..

“Borderline personality disorder- do they qualify as insanity as required under the Hindu Marriage act”   BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER is a chronic psychiatric disorder chara..

ABSTRACT     It is indeed a misfortune that the law which was enacted to protect the interest of a particular group of people is now being used by the same group of people in a fallacious manner. Earlier it was believed that women..

In Family Law maintenance is often used as a synonym for spousal support oralimony, and the term is in fact replacing alimony. Traditionally, alimony was solely the right of the wife to be supported by the husband. In Orr v. Orr,[1] the U.S. Supreme Court held that an Alabama statute [2]that provided that only husbands could be requi..

Will   Introduction   Will is a legal declaration of the intention of a testator through testamentary instrument with respect to his property, which he desires to be carried ..

Custody of a child is a sensitive issue for both the parents. Few parents are able to keep themselves neutral and do not let their strained relationship affect their children. In many of the cases the parent having the custody fights die hard to keep the child away from the non-custodian parent and resist the visitation rights to be given to the other paren..

  The domestic violence act hereinafter referred as dv act which was incorporated in the year 2005, The main purpose of this act is to prevent woman only woman from domestic violence, from the bare reading of the definition of the act we can see that the term “aggrieved person” includes only women, means only the men can be prosecuted ..

Since this is an area of profound concern these days, and I’ve been facing endless queries on this, here is a basic & overly simplistic layman’s view on the law as it was before 2005 and after it vis-a-vis daughter’s right in joint family/coparcenory/ancestral properties among Hindus in India.   &..

In today’s Indian society dowry is like a norm, we see that people spend lavishly on marriages. The root cause of the problem starts from here, The parents of the bride fulfill all the wishes of groom’s family like spending lavishly on wedding, gifting cars etc. when the bride reaches her matrimonial home, The selfishness of groom’s family..

INTRODUCTION   Whenever I think of a woman two quotes flash through my mind. The first quote by Brigham Young who said “You educate a man; you educate a ..