Supreme Court raises permanent alimony to ₹50,000/month, ensuring fair financial support and stability for divorced wife.
Read Full ArticleAllahabad High Court permits mutual consent divorce within a year of marriage citing criminal cases and exceptional hardship between spouses.
SC grants divorce citing irretrievable breakdown; rejects husband’s plea over wife’s govt job, stigma for daughter, and absence of valid legal grounds.
Supreme Court quashes 498A case against parents-in-law, urges courts to be cautious in handling matrimonial allegations made after divorce proceedings.
Kerala HC upholds divorce, ruling that the husband’s spiritual obsession and denial of conjugal rights amounted to mental cruelty and irretrievable breakdown.
Orissa HC grants divorce in a decade-old dispute, citing desertion under Hindu Marriage Act as no effort was made for restitution of conjugal rights.
Delhi HC rules that well-educated wives with work experience cannot stay unemployed just to claim maintenance, emphasizing financial independence.
Madras HC rules that a wife watching porn and enjoying self-pleasure isn’t cruelty, rejecting a husband’s divorce plea citing these as grounds.
Madras HC rules that alleged adulterers must be impleaded as co-respondents in adultery-based divorce cases under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, ensuring fairness.
The Supreme Court invoked Article 142 to dissolve a failed marriage and quash 17 pending cases between the couple, urging them to move forward peacefully.
SC slams Bombay HC for terms like ‘illegitimate wife’ & ‘faithful mistress’, calls them misogynistic, violating women’s dignity under Article 21. The SC also settled a critical legal quest...
SC quashes rape FIR against husband, citing marital rape exception under IPC. Court finds no prima facie case, noting victim married of her own free will.
SC highlights misuse of dowry laws, emphasizes Hindu marriage as a sacred institution, not a commercial venture, in landmark judgment on alimony claims.
Comparative analysis of Hindu and Muslim matrimonial laws, exploring differences in marriage and divorce provisions under personal laws for both religions.
MP High Court ruled that inconvenience to appear in court isn't valid grounds to waive the 6-month cooling-off period in mutual divorce cases.
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17 July, 2025 11:04 AM
SC allows quashing of rape case in exceptional circumstances, citing settlement, complainant’s affidavit, and need to prevent misuse of legal process.
17 July, 2025 03:36 PM
SC stays Karnataka HC order impleading Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy in contempt case; issues notice to NGO, seeks reply in 4 weeks.
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