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The Delhi High Court upheld a Family Court decree granting divorce after finding that the marriage was never consummated and the wife had wilfully refused physical intimacy. The Court held that such refusal amounts to mental cruelty and long separation shows the marriage had broken early. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court upheld a divorce…
The Delhi High Court has set aside a divorce decree after finding that a Family Court judge relied on a non-existent Section 28A of the Special Marriage Act and mixed-up unrelated laws. Calling it a “troubling lack of understanding”, the Court ordered immediate retraining for the judge at the Delhi Judicial Academy. Delhi High Court…
The Allahabad High Court upheld the Family Court’s order directing a husband to pay ₹2,500 monthly maintenance to his wife, saying an able-bodied man cannot escape responsibility by claiming unemployment. The Court noted that even minimum-wage labourers can earn enough to support their spouse. UTTAR PRADESH: The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) has refused to…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that refusing divorce in a completely broken marriage only increases suffering for both spouses. The Court dissolved a 23-year-old marriage, stressing that irretrievable breakdown itself amounts to cruelty. JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh High Court said that when a marriage has completely broken down and there is no chance of…
The Delhi High Court dissolved a 2016 marriage holding that a wife’s pregnancy or temporary reconciliation cannot wipe out past acts of cruelty. The Court found that repeated insults, threats, refusal to cohabit, and allegations of molestation against the husband’s father made the marriage irreparable. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court ruled that when a…
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