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Punjab and Haryana HC Provides Shield to Parents against Unruly and Unsupportive Children(03.12.2015)
Punjab and Haryana HC while taking petition by Gurpreet Singh against his father, has given a new meaning to parent-son relationship. The court has s.....
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Delhi HC: Adult Son has ‘No Legal Right’ to Stay in Parent’s Self Acquired Property(30.11.2016)
Delhi High Court, while upholding wishes of an elderly couple who wanted their son and daughter-in-law evicted from their house, has ruled that an adu.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Self Acquired Property, Son, Parent
Calcutta HC Directs Minor Child to Remain with Adoptive Parents(05.12.2016)
Calcutta High Court has directed that a two-year-old child would remain with a couple who had adopted her, despite biological mother's tearful plea to.....
Tags : Calcutta High Court, Adoptive Parents, biological mother
Delhi High Court: Both Parents Needed in Best Interest of Kid(20.11.2017)
Delhi High Court has directed an estranged NRI wife, who has been staying in Delhi, to return to the US with their three-year-old daughter while obser.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Parents
Harassed Parent can Seek Child’s Eviction from Any Type of Property: Delhi HC(26.11.2018)
Delhi High Court has said parent facing ill-treatment/harassment can seek eviction of his children and legal heirs from any type of property under the.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Parent facing Harassment
Harassed Parent can Seek Child’s Eviction from Any Type of Property: Delhi HC(26.11.2018)
Delhi High Court has said parent facing ill-treatment/harassment can seek eviction of his children and legal heirs from any type of property under the.....
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You are Parents of Your Child Forever: SC to Parting Couple(29.11.2018)
Supreme Court, while allowing a married couple to ‘part as friends’, has reminded them about the duty towards their child and also observed that the c.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Divorce, You are Parents of Your Child Forever
Madras High Court: Parents Cannot Have Absolute Decision Autonomy to Their Children(20.03.2017)
Madras High Court has upheld decisions of Courts which supported view that parental authority, barring a few exceptions, would “out of bounds for a wr.....
Tags : Madras High Court, parental authority
CIVIL - We Should Respect, Serve and Worship Our Parents: Chhattisgarh HC(20.03.2019)
Chhattisgarh High Court has said we should respect, serve and worship our parents, while dismissing a man's plea against providing maintenance to his .....
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Supreme Court: Parental Responsibility Does Not End with Breakdown of Marriage(19.02.2020)
Supreme Court has observed that the parental responsibility of the couple does not end even if there is a breakdown of a marriage. The Court further o.....
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SC: Family Members on Parental Side of Hindu Widow Not ‘Strangers’ Under Hindu Succession Act(25.02.2021)
Supreme Court has said that family members on the parental side of a Hindu widow cannot be held to be ‘strangers’ and her property can devolve upon th.....
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Kerala HC: Presents Gifted By Parents For Daughter's Welfare Not Dowry(14.12.2021)
Kerala High Court has ruled that presents given to the bride at the time of her marriage for her welfare will not count as dowry under the ambit of Do.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Presents Gifted By Parents For Daughter's Welfare
Delhi Court Declares Couple Legal and Biological Parents of Surrogate Child(31.12.2021)
Delhi Court has declared a couple as legal and biological parents of a child born out of a surrogacy arrangement, observing that there is no law in th.....
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Bombay HC: Parent Age Should Be Considered While Deciding Insurance Compensation(24.10.2016)
Bombay High Court has ruled that when an unmarried person dies in a road accident, the average age of his or her surviving old parents should be consi.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Parent Age, Insurance Compensation
Punjab and Haryana HC: Children Expected to Look After Elderly Parents(15.07.2021)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that children are expected to look after their elderly parents properly, which is not only a value-based pr.....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Maintenance of Elderly Parents
MP HC Grants Protection to Couple Receiving Threats from Parents(15.07.2021)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted protection to a couple receiving threat from their parents after observing that persons, being major, voluntaril.....
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Bom HC: JJB’s Decision to Try Child as Adult Must be Transparent and Fair(03.07.2023)
Bombay High Court has held that inquiry by Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) under Section 15 of J.J. Act to arrive at a conclusion to try the child as an .....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Juvenile Justice Board, Inquiry, Transparent, Fair
Supreme Court: Custody Court Can Refuse to Grant Custody of Child to Natural Parents(29.08.2024)
SC while reserving judgement in a custody case, has observed that a custody court can refuse to grant custody to the natural parents. It all depends o.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Natural Parents, Legal Rights
SC: Can’t Assume that Dowry & Gifts Given During Marriage are Entrusted to Parents-in-Law of Bride(30.08.2024)
SC has reiterated the position that giving dowry and traditional presents at the time of the wedding does not raise a presumption that such articles a.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Dowry Prohibition Act, Traditional Presents, Parents In-Law
Karnataka HC Directs Police Stations to Maintain List of Senior Citizens in Their Jurisdiction(24.11.2016)
Karnataka High Court has directed State Government to ensure that each police station maintains an up-to-date list of senior citizens in its jurisdict.....
Tags : Karnataka High Court, Senior Citizens, Karnataka Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Rules
Delhi HC: Circumstances Arising Out Of Marital Relationship Includes Parents-In-Law(14.07.2022)
Delhi High Court has held that the words "circumstances arising out of marital relationship" used in reference to filing of suit for injunction under .....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Parent-in-law, Family Court
Supreme Court: Parents Transferring Property to ‘Caring Children’ is not Undue Influence(13.09.2019)
Supreme Court has ruled that if parents transfer property to an offspring who takes care of them in old age, it cannot be assumed that the individual .....
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Karnataka HC: No Bar on Step Parent to Become Adoptive Parent of Child(13.10.2020)
Karnataka High Court has declared a stepmother as the legally adoptive mother of the minor child and the couple as parents of a minor child for all le.....
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Delhi HC Seeks Reply in Minors’ Plea on Loss of Parent Due to Deficient Oxygen Supply(02.08.2021)
Delhi High Court has asked the Centre and the Delhi Government to file reply in the plea moved by two minors, who lost their sole bread-earning parent.....
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Bombay HC Permits Maharashtra Schools to Hike Fees by 15% for 2016-17(23.12.2015)
Bombay HC has passed an interim order allowing schools to hike fee without seeking approval from executive committees of the Parent-Teachers’ Associat.....
Tags : Bombay HC, Parent-Teachers’ Associations , hike fee
Will Not Allow Hadiya’s Husband to Meet Her, Says Hadiya’s Guardian and College Principal(29.11.2017)
Will Not Allow Hadiya’s Husband to Meet Her, Says Hadiya’s Guardian and College Principal
Tags : The Supreme Court ordered the college administration to treat Hadiya like any other student and as per hostel rules, but remained silent on whether Shafin Jehan, Hadiya’s husband, or her parents would be allowed to meet her while she completes her studies.
P&H HC: Writ of Habeas Corpus Can be Issued for Restoration of Custody of Minor to the Parent(02.09.2021)
Punjab & Haryana High Court has granted relief to a father who had filed a petition alleging illegal custody by his wife and her parents, holding that.....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana High Court, Restoration of Custody of Minor to the Parent
Kerala High Court Allows Plea Seeking Correction of Deceased Parent's Name on Passport(06.09.2021)
Kerala High Court has allowed a plea seeking a correction in the parent's name on the passport even after their demise, provided that documents were p.....
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Calcutta High Court: Respect Elders or else Find Separate Accommodation(11.01.2017)
Calcutta High Court has ruled that children living in their parents’ house have to listen to them and respect them, or else find their own separate ac.....
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Parents are Obligated to Spend on Education of Their Children: Bombay HC(14.01.2019)
Bombay High Court has observed that parents are obligated to spend money on their children's education and that such monetary transactions shouldn't b.....
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Rights of Elderly Persons Must be Recognised & Implemented: SC Issues Directives(14.12.2018)
Supreme Court has observed that there cannot be any excuse of lack of finances either by the Government of India or by the State Governments in strict.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Parents and Senior Citizens Act
Delhi High Court: Parents to be Maintained by All of their Children, There can be no division of Duty(25.09.2019)
Delhi High Court has observed that parents are to be maintained by all of their children and there can be "no division of duty" among them in this reg.....
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SC: Court Can Consider Preferences of Minor in Parental Custody(02.11.2020)
Supreme Court has stated that as per Section 17(3) of the Guardian and Wards Act, 1890, the Court can consider the preferences of the minor if he/she .....
Tags : Supreme Court, Preference of Minor, Parental Custody
Bombay HC Upholds Direction Under Senior Citizens Act to Son to Vacate Flat of Elderly Parents(20.09.2021)
Bombay High Court has dismissed the son's appeal against the Maintenance Tribunal order asking him to vacate the premises, observing that the man and.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Vacate Flat of Elderly Parents
Tripura HC: Visitation Rights Shouldn't be Limited to Few Hours(23.10.2023)
Tripura High Court while observing that a parent cannot be a guest in their child's life, has held that if visitation rights are granted only for limi.....
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Punjab and Haryana HC: Foreign Nationals are Covered Under Senior Citizens Act(03.02.2016)
Punjab and Haryana HC has ruled that foreign citizens living in India are also covered under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Ac.....
Tags : Punjab and Haryana HC , Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, foreign citizens
Madras HC Rules: Aged Parents of Deceased Person Eligible for Workmen’s Compensation(18.01.2017)
Madras High Court has ruled that aged parents of a deceased person is also eligible for compensation sanctioned under Workmen Compensation Act.
Tags : Madras High Court, Workmen Compensation Act, aged parents
Bombay High Court: 'Adoptive' Parents can Continue to Visit Separated Kids(28.11.2019)
Bombay High Court has continued an earlier relief to six sets of 'adoptive' parents to have daily visitation rights. They can meet the children they h.....
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Gujarat HC: Father Must Maintain Son Only Till He is of 18 years(21.03.2016)
Gujarat HC has ruled that parents are liable to maintain a son till he turns 18 and starts earning.
Tags : Gujarat HC , parents
CIVIL - Karnataka HC Asks Son to Vacate Parent's House for Manhandling Parents(25.02.2019)
Karnataka High Court has directed a man to vacate his parent's house, taking serious note of the fact that he had manhandled them and observed that ou.....
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Delhi HC: Parents of Dead Accident Victim to be Treated as Dependants for Compensation(15.01.2021)
Delhi High Court has held that parents of a dead accident victim are to be treated as dependants to award compensation. The Court has clarified that l.....
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Kerala HC Dismisses Plea by Man for Release of 21-Year Old from Parent’s Custody(22.01.2021)
Kerala High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a man claiming to be a 'spiritual guru' seeking release of a 21-year old woman, who .....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Parent’s Custody
Bombay HC: Child Raised in Orphanage Can’t Be Declared Orphan if Biological Parents Are Alive(02.11.2022)
Bombay High Court has held that children though brought up in an orphanage cannot be declared as orphans as defined under Section 2(42) of the Juvenil.....
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Bombay High Court: School Boards Can’t Refuse to Change Names of Students, Parents(03.05.2018)
Bombay High Court has ruled that the law does not prohibit an individual from changing her name, and therefore school boards cannot bar her from doing.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Students, Parents
Supreme Court: Children Born out of Void Marriages Entitled to Share in Parent’s Property(22.01.2024)
Supreme Court has held that children born out of void and voidable marriages have to be considered legitimate children and shall be entitled to a vali.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Void Marriages, Parent’s Property
Kerala HC: Presents Gifted By Parents For Daughter's Welfare Not Dowry(14.12.2021)
Kerala High Court has ruled that presents given to the bride at the time of her marriage for her welfare will not count as dowry under the ambit of Do.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Presents Gifted By Parents For Daughter's Welfare
SC: Court Auction Sale is Most Transparent(11.11.2022)
Supreme Court while observing that Registering Authority can’t sit in appeal over decision of Court permitting sale at particular price has held that .....
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Del. HC: Right to Parenthood and Procreation is Fundamental Right of a Convict(26.12.2023)
Delhi High Court while observing that right to parenthood is fundamental right of a convict, has held that where age and biological clock of convict a.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Right to Parenthood, Convict, Fundamental Right
SC: Delegated Legislation Which is Ultra Vires to Parent Act Cannot be Given Any Effect(19.12.2022)
Supreme Court while observing that it is the function of the courts to keep all authorities within the confines of the law by supplying the doctrine o.....
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Delhi HC: Prospective Adoptive Parents Can't Demand Their Choice on Which Child to Adopt(20.02.2024)
Delhi High Court has held that Right to Adopt does not come within the ambit of Article 21 of the Constitution of India hence prospective adoptive par.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Right to Adopt, A. 21 of COI, Prospective Adoptive Parents
Karnataka High Court: Rights of Adopted Child of Indian Parents Cannot be Left Marooned(29.03.2024)
Kar. HC while directing Central Adoption Resource Authority to consider representation of an Indian couple that has adopted a child in Uganda, has hel.....
Tags : Karnataka High Court, Adopted Child, Indian Parents, Hague Convention
Delhi High Court: Minors Too Have a Right to Choose Not to Live With Parents(28.04.2017)
Delhi High Court has said that even minor children have liberty to choose not to live with their parents.
Tags : Delhi High Court, Minor, Parents
Kerala HC Directs Family Courts to Mask Name of Adoptive Parents When Issuing Orders(12.04.2021)
Kerala High Court directed the Registrar (District Judiciary) to issue necessary directions to all family courts in the state to mask the name of adop.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Name of Adoptive Parents
Supreme Court Allows Parents Having Visitation Rights to Maintain Contact with Children(01.05.2020)
Supreme Court has directed that parents with visitation rights may resort to electronic means keeping in view the inability of parents to meet their c.....
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Delhi HC: Every Child Has Fundamental Right to Get ‘Love & Affection’ From Both Parents(20.02.2017)
Delhi High Court has said while giving father the right to meet his minor son has said that ‘every child has a fundamental right to get "love and affe.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, parents, Love & Affection
Supreme Court Says Parents Denied Custody Should be Allowed to Talk to Child Daily(21.01.2020)
Supreme Court has said that where both parents are estranged and locked in a matrimonial dispute, the parent who has been denied the custody of the ch.....
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Delhi HC: Educational Certificates & Degrees of Students Should Contain Names of Both Parents(11.03.2024)
Delhi High Court has held that it is retrogressive if educational certificates, degrees and other such documents reflect the name only of the father o.....
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Man Deposed About Parents' Murder He Witnessed When He was Six: Tripura HC Upholds Conviction(28.01.2019)
Tripura High Court has upheld a Trial Court judgment convicting an accused for a murder that took place about three decades ago, relying on the deposi.....
Tags : Tripura High Court, Man Deposed About Parents' Murder He Witnessed When He was Six
Supreme Court: Concept of 'Parental Alienation Syndrome' Discussed in Child Custody Dispute(09.05.2024)
SC has stated that Courts ought not to prematurely and without identification of individual instances of 'alienating behaviour', label any parent as a.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Parental Alienation Syndrome, Child Custody Dispute
Madras HC Orders Probe in Case of Kidnapped Deaf-Mute Man(05.08.2016)
Madras HC, while observing twists and turns in abduction case of a deaf-mute man, to swindle vast properties left behind by his father and after assum.....
Tags : Madras HC, loco parentis, abduction case
Calcutta HC Orders Daughter to Pay Maintenance to Parents, Provide Accommodation(11.03.2022)
Calcutta High Court has directed a daughter to allow her aged parents to reside with her in a residential flat which had been gifted to her by her par.....
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Delhi HC Directs Govt to Take Immediate Steps to Ensure Transparent Allocation of Tocilizumab Doses(11.05.2021)
Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the Delhi Government to take immediate steps to ensure that the Tocilizumab doses received by tonight and.....
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Karnataka HC: Only Indian Citizens Can Start Proceedings Under Senior Citizens Act(31.03.2022)
Karnataka High Court has observed that only Indian Citizens can initiate proceedings under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen A.....
Tags : Karnataka High Court, Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007
NCLT, Bengaluru Dismisses Insolvency Petition Against Café Coffee Day(07.04.2022)
National Company Law Tribunal, Bengaluru has dismissed the insolvency petition filed against the parent company of Cafe Coffee Day namely Coffee Day G.....
Tags : National Company Law Tribunal, parent company, Cafe Coffee Day, Coffee Day Global Limited, Cooperative Rabobank U.A
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
Bom. HC: Divorcee or a Single Parent Eligible to Adopt as Per Juvenile Justice Act, 2015(13.04.2023)
Bombay High Court while setting aside order disallowing a woman from adopting her sister’s child on ground that she was single working woman, held tha.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Single Parent, Juvenile Justice Act, Adopt
Bom. HC: Father/Mother-In-laws Not Entitled to Claim Maintenance Under Section 125 CrPC(19.04.2023)
Bombay High Court has held that parents-in-law are not entitled to claim maintenance from their widowed daughter-in-law under Section 125 CrPC, on the.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Maintenance, Widow, Parents-in-Law
Del. HC: Visitation Rights Must be Given to Non-Custodial Parent to Ensure Contact with Child(11.07.2024)
Delhi High Court has observed that in matters of child custody, a parent who does not have custody of the child must have visitation rights in order t.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Visitation Rights, Non-Custodial Parent
Joint Parenting: Supreme Court Asks Centre to Respond Over Reforms(22.07.2019)
Supreme Court has asked the Centre to respond to a request for putting a legal regime for “joint parenting” in cases of divorce of parents to ensure t.....
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P&H HC: No Requirement of NOC Where Adoptive Parents are Indians(30.07.2020)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 would not apply in cases of inter-country adoption of children being given .....
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MP HC: Compelling Married Woman to Live in Parental Home After Marriage is Cruelty(30.06.2021)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that compelling a married woman to live in her parental home after marriage amounts to cruelty and that for thi.....
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Madras HC Asks Parents to Spend More Time with Their Children(30.09.2016)
Madras HC while voicing concern over elopement of minor children and attributing it to reasons such as nuclear family setup has asked parents to spend.....
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Del. HC: Person Merely Donating Eggs or Sperm Doesn’t Become Biological Parent of Child Born(14.08.2024)
Delhi High Court has held that a person merely donating eggs or sperms is not entitled to claim parental rights over children born through in vitro fe.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Biological Parent, IVF
Bombay HC: Person Merely Donating Eggs or Sperm Doesn’t Become Biological Parent of Child Born(14.08.2024)
Bombay High Court has held that a person merely donating eggs or sperms is not entitled to claim parental rights over children born through in vitro f.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Biological Parent, IVF
Gujarat HC: Step-Parent Are Not Liable to Maintain Child(12.10.2015)
Gujarat High Court has ruled that a stepmother or stepfather is not liable to maintain a stepchild because provisions of Section 125 of Code of Crimin.....
Tags : Gujarat High Court, Step-Parent
Orissa High Court Directs Mediation Between Private Schools and Parents(09.09.2020)
Orissa High Court has ordered the School and Mass Education Department of the State to convene a meeting between all the stakeholders including the pa.....
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Karnataka HC Directs State to Consider Offering Compensation to Parents of Boy Died of Electrocution(20.08.2021)
Karnataka High Court has directed the State government to immediately consider offering compensation to the parents of 15 years old boy who died of el.....
Tags : Karnataka High Court, Compensation to Parents of Boy Died of Electrocution
SC Acquits Parents-in-Law Since Factum of Dowry Demand Wasn’t Proved(23.09.2024)
Supreme Court has acquitted parents-in-law of a deceased woman charged for committing dowry death on the ground that no factum of dowry demand was pro.....
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Judgments
CWC and Labour Department more in breach than compliance of child welfare guidelines(04.09.2015)
In a case emerging out a lack of action taken by the police against a person employing children in a welding shop, the Court made a “shocking revelati.....
Tags : Children, employed, welfare commission, parents