Search Results for Tag : Matrimonial
Notifications & Circulars
Ministry of Women and Child Development issues one more Look-out-Circular regarding NRI Matrimonial disputes(04.07.2018)
The Integrated Nodal Agency (INA), in its meeting held today under the chairpersonship of WCD Secretary, decided to issue one more Look-out-Circular(L.....
Tags : Circular, Issuance, NRI, Matrimonial disputes
Judgments
If Court passes a decree having no jurisdiction over the matter, it would amount to nullity(02.11.2018)
In instant second appeal, learned counsel for the Appellant has raised issue of jurisdiction of the trial Court as well as the Appellate Court on the .....
Tags : Matrimonial dispute, Jurisdiction, Nullity
Court rejects spouse’s conditional cooperation in matrimonial dispute(05.05.2016)
Parties to a matrimonial case cannot stall the legal system by refusing to participate in the proceeding on the precondition that another proceeding b.....
Tags : matrimonial dispute, parallel proceedings, delay
News
Supreme Court: Proceed with Caution Against Husband’s Kin in Matrimonial Dispute Cases(22.08.2018)
Supreme Court has cautioned the courts while proceeding against the distant relatives of husband in crimes pertaining to matrimonial disputes and dowr.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Matrimonial Dispute
Allahabad HC: Matrimonial Case Cannot Be Transferred On Ground of Distance/ Financial Stress(30.03.2022)
Allahabad High Court has held that once an application under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 has been allowed and uninterrupted litigation .....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Matrimonial Case, Matrimonial Dispute, Transfer Application, Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Bombay HC Suggests for Evolving a Better Mechanism for Dissolving Marriages(24.10.2016)
Bombay High Court has suggested that a mechanism be evolved to ensure matrimonial disputes are heard and decided or resolved within a fixed time frame.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, matrimonial disputes,
Delhi HC: FIR for Non-Compoundable Offences Can be Quashed in Matrimonial Disputes(20.04.2022)
Delhi High Court has held that First Information Report or complaints can be quashed even with regard to non-compoundable offences pertaining to matri.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, First Information Report, matrimonial disputes, non-compoundable
Madras HC: Parents Should Consciously Refrain from Influencing Matrimonial Life of Their Children(10.07.2018)
Madras High Court has observed that parents should consciously refrain from influencing the matrimonial life of their children.
Tags : Madras High Court, Matrimonial Life
SC: Wife's Right to Reside in Matrimonial Home Can't Be Enforced Against Development Authority(29.04.2020)
Supreme Court has held that when a builder has discharged his obligation by accommodating the original owners in the redeveloped portion, a lady marri.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Matrimonial Home
P&H HC: S.24 CPC Can't Be Construed Loosely To Allow Transfer On Frivolous & Flimsy Grounds(06.05.2022)
Punjab and Haryana High Court, while dealing with a transfer application concerning a matrimonial dispute, held that provisions of Section 24 of Code .....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Section 24, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, matrimonial dispute
Allahabad HC: Minor Girl Not Allowed to Live in Matrimonial Home Till She Attains Majority(08.02.2021)
Allahabad High Court has held that a minor girl cannot be allowed to live in a matrimonial relationship with a man she claims to be her husband, even .....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Minor Girl, Matrimonial Home
SC: Wife's Convenience is a General Rule in Transfer Petitions(04.11.2022)
Supreme Court while hearing a transfer petition concerning matrimonial dispute stated that convenience of wife in matrimonial disputes is paramount as.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Matrimonial Dispute, Transfer Petition
Bombay HC Notices State over Regularization of Matrimonial Websites(11.01.2017)
Bombay High Court has directed State Government to file an affidavit with details of steps it has initiated to regulate matrimonial websites and marri.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Matrimonial Websites, Dowry Prohibition Act
SC Directs Leander Paes, Rhea to Work Out a Settlement to Put An End to Matrimonial Dispute(16.01.2017)
Supreme Court has asked tennis legend Leander Paes and his estranged live-in partner Rhea Pillai to appear before its mediation cell to settle their d.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Leander Paes, Matrimonial Dispute
Bombay HC: Woman Who Leaves Matrimonial House Before Divorce Can't Claim Right to Reside in House(03.10.2022)
Bombay High Court has held that a woman, who leaves her matrimonial house before her divorce, cannot later seek right to residence under the Protectio.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Matrimonial House, DV Act
Ker HC: Drastic Change in Woman's Matrimonial Life Makes Her Eligible for Abortion Upto 24 Weeks(27.09.2022)
Kerala High Court has held that drastic changes in matrimonial life of a pregnant woman fulfils the condition of 'change of her marital status' in Rul.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, MTP Rules, Matrimonial Life
Delhi HC Ends 8-Year Matrimonial Knot, Says Fast-Paced Lifestyle Took Toll(14.11.2016)
Delhi High Court, while dissolving an eight-year-old marriage of a well-qualified couple, has said fast-paced lifestyle, complexities of living and ch.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Matrimonial , Fast-Paced Lifestyle
J&K&L HC: Relatives Can’t be Roped into Dispute Without Instances of Their Involvement in Crime(02.08.2022)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that in crimes pertaining to matrimonial disputes and dowry deaths the relatives of the husband shoul.....
Tags : Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, Matrimonial Dispute, Dowry Death, Relatives
Ker. HC Allows Litigants to Seek Deletion of Personal Identities in Family Cases(22.12.2022)
Kerala High Court has held that personal information of parties may not be published on High Court website in respect of family and matrimonial cases .....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Personal Information, Right to be Forgotten, Matrimonial Cases
P&H HC Notices Defence Ministry Over Alimony in Matrimonial Dispute Involving Soldiers(27.02.2017)
Punjab & Haryana High Court has issued a notice of motion to Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a petition by a serving army officer, Lt Col P Katal, for fa.....
Tags : Punjab & Haryana High Court, Soldiers, Matrimonial Dispute
Kerala HC: Centre Should Seriously Consider Having a Uniform Marriage Code(12.12.2022)
Kerala High Court while observing that Family Courts have become another battleground, has stated that Union Government should seriously consider havi.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Uniform Marriage Code, Matrimonial Disputes
Delhi HC Directs Police for Report on Alleged Illegal Detaining of Man in Matrimonial Dispute Matter(05.04.2021)
Delhi High Court has issued notice on a petition alleging illegal detaining and beating of a man involved in a matrimonial dispute by the Delhi Police.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Illegal Detaining of Man in Matrimonial Dispute Matter
Del HC: Right to Residence in Matrimonial Home Includes Right to Safe And Healthy Living(05.04.2023)
Delhi High Court has held that right to residence in a matrimonial home, under the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Right to Residence, Matrimonial Home, Healthy Living
Bombay HC: ‘Immediate Inducement’ Not Sine Qua Non For Prosecution in Matrimonial Suicide Cases(27.03.2017)
Bombay High Court has held that in cases of suicides resulting from matrimonial disputes or sustained torture, ‘immediate inducement’ cannot be consid.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Matrimonial Suicide
Bom. HC: Parents Don’t Hold Absolute Rights Over Destiny of Their Children(12.04.2023)
Bombay High Court while observing that children cannot be treated as property of parents, and don’t have absolute rights over the destiny and life of .....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Parents, Matrimonial Dispute
Delhi High Court: Children Are The Real Sufferers In Matrimonial Disputes(06.09.2017)
Delhi High Court had lamented how children are used as tools of vengeance by disputing parents and how it is a child’s fundamental right to get love o.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Matrimonial Disputes
P&H HC: Wife’s Suicide in Matrimonial Home Doesn’t Automatically Make In-Laws Liable for Harassment(26.06.2023)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that wife’s suicide in matrimonial home doesn’t automatically make her in-laws and husband liable for harassmen.....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Wife, Suicide, Matrimonial Home
HP HC: Can’t Force Wife to Live With Husband in Matrimonial Home When he is Keeping Another Lady(07.06.2023)
Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that no wife can be forced to live in matrimonial home with husband keeping another lady with him and observed th.....
Tags : Himachal Pradesh High Court, Matrimonial Home, Wife
Del. HC Issues Guidelines For Preparing Mediation Settlement Agreements In Matrimonial Cases(22.05.2023)
Delhi High Court has issued guidelines to be followed by mediators while drafting settlement agreements in matrimonial cases and observed that such ag.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Settlement Agreements, Matrimonial Cases
Consumer Court, Bengaluru: Matrimonial Portal Can Only Facilitate and Not Guarantee Marriage(23.08.2021)
Consumer Court, Bengaluru, while dismissing a complaint filed by a 35-year-old man against an online matrimonial service provider, said that a matrimo.....
Tags : Consumer Court, Matrimonial Portal
Cal. HC: Mental Cruelty Can’t Have Uniform Standard in Matrimonial Cases(08.08.2023)
Calcutta High Court while observing that Mental cruelty is a state of mind and such feeling and intensity are felt differently by each person, has obs.....
Tags : Calcutta High Court, Mental Cruelty, Uniform Standard, Matrimonial Cases
Allahabad HC: Matrimonial Dispute Cannot be Transferred Due to Transfer of Husband(29.10.2021)
Allahabad High Court has observed that merely because the husband has now been posted to a different station, a matrimonial dispute case cannot be tra.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Matrimonial Dispute
JH HC: Difficult to Get Documentary Evidence for Money Exchanged at Time of Marriage(06.10.2023)
Jharkhand High Court has held that even in the absence of documentary evidence to prove payment of money and gold, oral evidence of the parties if fou.....
Tags : Jharkhand High Court, Documentary Evidence, Matrimonial Cases
Supreme Court Disallows Video Conferencing in Transfer Petitions(10.10.2017)
Supreme Court has held that video-conferencing cannot be allowed in hearing and deciding transfer petitions dealing with matrimonial disputes as this .....
Tags : Supreme Court, matrimonial disputes
SC: Courts can Entertain Complaint u/s 498A Where Wife Takes Shelter After Leaving Matrimonial Home(22.11.2023)
Supreme Court has held that Courts at the place where the wife takes shelter after leaving or being driven away from the matrimonial home on account o.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Section 498A, Matrimonial Home, Cruelty
Calcutta High Court: Inconvenience of Wife Treated as Prime Consideration in Matrimonial Suit(16.01.2020)
Calcutta High Court has ruled that if a Transfer Petition under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 is sought by a wife during matrimonial.....
Tags : Calcutta High Court, Transfer Petition, Matrimonial Suit
SC: Circulate 'Rajnesh v. Neha' Judgment to All Judicial Officers(08.11.2023)
Supreme Court while observing that its guideline regarding payment of maintenance in matrimonial cases as laid down in Rajnesh v. Neha (MANU/SC/0833/2.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Matrimonial Cases, Guidelines, Maintenance
Madras HC: Long Cohabitation Will Not Confer Any Legal Right to Raise Matrimonial Dispute(08.11.2021)
Madras High Court has observed that long cohabitation or living together will not confer upon the parties any legal right to raise a matrimonial dispu.....
Tags : Madras High Court, Legal Right to Raise Matrimonial Dispute
Del. HC: Issuance of Anti-Suit Injunction Possible if Foreign Proceedings Oppressive or Vexatious(04.01.2024)
Delhi High Court while observing that cases of injunction are governed by the doctrine of equity, has held that Indian Courts can issue anti-suit inju.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Anti-Suit Injunction, Oppressive, Matrimonial
Allahabad HC: Two Adults Have the Right of Choice of Matrimonial Partner(17.09.2021)
Allahabad High Court has observed that it cannot be disputed that two adults have the right of choice of their matrimonial partner irrespective of the.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Right of Choice of Matrimonial Partner
Bom. HC: Woman Entitled to Maintenance Even if Living in Matrimonial House(09.01.2024)
Bombay High Court has held that the mere fact that a woman is residing in the matrimonial home is not a pretext to disentitle her to a reasonable amou.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Maintenance, Matrimonial House
Marital Discord Shouldn’t Deny Child Love of Both Parents: Madras High Court(19.02.2018)
Madras High Court has ruled that matrimonial disputes between couples should not deny their children the care and affection of both the parents.
Tags : Madras High Court, Matrimonial Disputes
Punjab and Haryana High Court Directs Insistence on Income and Assets Affidavit in Matrimonial Cases(10.01.2020)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed all family courts in the State to insist on affidavit of assets, income & expenditure in all matrimonial ca.....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Matrimonial Cases
Calcutta HC: Cannot Excommunicate Person from Community Due to Matrimonial Dispute in Family(24.01.2024)
Calcutta High Court while setting aside an order of excommunication of person from Sikh Community has held that excommunication due of matrimonial dis.....
Tags : Calcutta High Court, Excommunicate, Matrimonial Dispute, Article 21 of Constitution of India
Del. HC: Wife Leaving Matrimonial Home on Regular Basis Without Husband’s Fault is Cruelty(05.04.2024)
Delhi High Court while granting divorce to a husband, has observed that a wife leaving a matrimonial home from time to time without any fault on the h.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Matrimonial Home, Cruelty
Allahabad HC: Wife Not Having Anyone to Accompany Her Across Long Distance a Relevant Factor(16.02.2022)
Allahabad High Court has observed that the fact that a wife is not having anyone to accompany her across a long distance is also a relevant considerat.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Transfer of Matrimonial Case
Madhya Pradesh High Court: Throwing Out Wife from Matrimonial Home Amounts to Cruelty(18.03.2024)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that if a lady has been ousted from her matrimonial house, then certainly it will have an impact on her mind amount.....
Tags : Madhya Pradesh High Court, Matrimonial Home, Cruelty