Plain-English family-law guides on marriage, divorce, maintenance, domestic violence, custody and related court remedies.
Section 144 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 carries forward the summary maintenance jurisdiction that Section 125 of the CrPC, 1973 has exercised since 1974. The substantive content is unchanged. The procedural law, however, has been substan...
Restitution of conjugal rights under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — and its analogues in Section 22 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, Sections 32-33 of the Divorce Act, 1869 (Christian) and Section 36 of the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 193...
Danial Latifi v Union of India , (2001) 7 SCC 740, a five-judge Constitution Bench, upheld the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 by reading Section 3 so as to require the former husband to make a "reasonable and fair provision" extend...
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