Legal News

Husband Can’t Be Stripped Of Right To Travel Abroad Merely Because Wife Filed Domestic Violence Case: Madras High Court

Husband Cannot Force Wife To Look After His Old Parents Or Do Household Chores: Karnataka High Court Upholds Maintenance

Can a husband expect his wife to seek permission before visiting her parents or insist that she take care of his parents and household? The Karnataka High Court answered these questions while refusing to reduce ₹9,000 monthly maintenance awarded to the wife and minor daughter of a man working as a coolie.

Sex Between Spouses After Separation Does Not Mean Cruelty Was Forgiven: Calcutta High Court Upholds Husband’s Divorce Over Wife’s Mental Cruelty

Can a few instances of living together or having sex after separation wipe out earlier matrimonial cruelty? The Calcutta High Court has explained why such temporary reconciliation does not automatically amount to forgiveness, while upholding a divorce decree granted to the husband for mental cruelty.

Wife Pressuring Husband To Leave His Widowed Mother Amounts To Mental Cruelty: Calcutta High Court Upholds Divorce Decree In Husband’s Favour

Can Wife Force Husband To Leave His Dependent Widowed Mother? The Calcutta High Court has now upheld the husband’s divorce after examining years of matrimonial disputes and repeated allegations against him and his family.

Husband Cannot Deny Maintenance Even If Wife Is Enrolled As An Advocate: Telangana High Court

Husband had already got his practising advocate wife’s ₹20,000 monthly maintenance removed—so what brought the liability back years later? Telangana High Court restored the 2013 order in a matrimonial battle pending since 2010, but the key reason was not what the husband had argued

Court Sets Aside Ex-BJP MLA Amrita Meghwal’s 3-Year-Old Divorce Decree; BJP Leader Babulal Meghwal Back In Matrimonial Battle

Babulal Meghwal already had a divorce decree—so why is he back fighting the same marriage nearly 3 years later after Wife Amrita Meghwal challenged the notice process?

Rs 5-Crore Demand To Quash Rape FIR? What Punjab CM Mann’s Wife Has To Do With Case As P&H High Court Orders Fresh Probe?

Was ₹5 crore allegedly demanded to get a rape FIR cancelled, and why has Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s wife been named in the controversy? The High Court refused a CBI probe but found the competing allegations serious enough to require a fresh investigation by an officer unconnected with the case.

Wife Lodging FIR Against Husband, Even If False, Is Not Abetment Of Suicide: Supreme Court Frees In-Laws Of Man Who Committed Suicide

A husband died by suicide after his wife left the matrimonial home, filed an FIR and initiated maintenance proceedings, while his suicide note blamed her family. But can even an allegedly false matrimonial FIR make the wife’s family guilty of abetment when there was no instigation or intentional aid?

Husband Convicted Of Dowry Death Despite Wife’s Dying Declaration Saying Burns Were Accidental; Punjab & Haryana High Court Acquits After 22 Years

Her own dying declaration did not blame her husband, and no complaint was made while she remained alive for five days. So how did he still spend 22 years fighting a dowry-death conviction before the Punjab & Haryana High Court found reasonable doubt?