1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (262+ words) newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court said that every matrimonial discord, emotional incompatibility, or failure of conjugal expectations does not metamorphose into cruelty within the meaning of Section 498A of IPC Justice M Nagaprasanna made these observations while allowing the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (232+ words) The New Indian Express The court made the observation while allowing an appeal filed by a husband challenging a Family Court order that refused to grant him a divorce The couple got married on May 14, 2015.The Family Court had dismissed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (259+ words) The New Indian Express HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has upheld a family court decree dissolving the marriage between a couple from Nizamabad, affirming that the husband had successfully established the grounds of cruelty and desertion under Sections 13(1)(ia) and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (473+ words) RANCHI: In a significant ruling, the Jharkhand High Court held that a woman's act of applying kajal and lipstick at 2 am cannot be treated as evidence of mental illness. The court observed that it is natural for a newly married…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (227+ words) The New Indian Express LUCKNOW: Three sisters from Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha district have claimed to have married the same man, drawing criticism from Hindu organisations and triggering widespread discussion on social media.Saroj (20), Savitri (19) and Santosh (18), residents of Dhauria…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (347+ words) JAIPUR: Two life convicts serving separate murder sentences were married inside Rajasthan's Mandore Open Jail in Jodhpur on Wednesday after receiving permission from the Rajasthan High Court, in what is believed to be the first such wedding between two convicted…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (255+ words) The New Indian Express VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has clarified that the six-month ‘cooling-off period’ prescribed under Section 13B(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act is not mandatory in cases where both spouses have mutually agreed to dissolve their…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (988+ words) Kerala files roughly 75 divorce petitions every day. This statistic is usually presented as evidence of social change, declining family values, rising individualism, economic independence, or the collapse of civilisation, depending on the speaker’s ideological preferences. All these explanations may contain…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (157+ words) The New Indian Express MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has instructed all courts exercising jurisdiction over matrimonial cases to substitute the names and addresses of parties with 'X' and 'Y' or any such anonymised descriptions in all…...

2+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (459+ words) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that physical relationship between two consenting unmarried adults cannot be a ground to draw an adverse impression about the character of the person in that relationship. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Manoj…...