family law

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 ..

This article explains all you need to know about getting a divorce in India.   Marriage as opposed to relati..

This article would try and explain all you need to know about filing or defending a transfer petition in the Supreme Court.   These days the dockets of the Supreme Court are flooded with transfer..

On March 23, 2012, the Union Cabinet approved the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, by which "irretrievable breakdown of marriage" was included as a ground for dissolving a marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. The proposal for including "irretrievable breakdown of marriage" as a ground for divorce ..

Bexy Michael and anrs. V. A.J.Michael   (Mat.Appeal.No. 378 of 2..

“A happy marriage is a harbour in the tempest of life, an unhappy marriage is a tempest in the harbour of life.”   Divorces are tough ! But so are marriages that take a toll on your physical/mental well being, divorce is no more a taboo, and people are i..

Coparcener has no right to maintain a suit for permanent injunction restraining the Manager or Karta from alienating the coparcenary property and the coparcener has the right only to challenge the alienation of coparcenary property and recover back the property after alienation has come into being.   p style="text-alig..

We have worked with couples facing divorce litigations. Divorce is really a tough phases for any couple. Leaving the exceptional cases where divorce was inevitable, we observed  (in cases we come across) a strange fact that in most of the cases small issues have caused the differences in the couples. Due to absence of proper counseling, the difference had tak..

Since ancient times, women have been considered as the weaker sex. It was realized by the Governments throughout the world in early 1980s that properly steps are required world-wide to give them equal status and opportunities. There was an international convention following which Indian Govt. also ratified its (then) existing laws. Then came series of laws protec..

Concept of Karta in Hindu Joint Family [1]   In a Hindu Joint Family, the Karta or Manager occupies a pivotal and unique place in that there is no comparable office or ins..

An analytical study    The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.  [Lat., Prima societas in ipso conjugio est: proxima in libe..

Before June, 17, 1956, the date of commencement of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, the Hindu law of succession was basically the traditional Hindu law, with some marginal statutory modifications.   The traditional Hindu law of succession was different in two main school..

Law of adultery as it stands in India punishes only man, and assumes that in all cases ‘man is the seducer’ and the women, who is an equal participant is viewed as a victim. There have been numerous debates about the discriminatory stance of the provision, The insistence of the National commission for women and the report of the Madhav Menon committee..