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‘Such law does not exist’: Allahabad High Court sets aside divorce decree after judge cites fictitious Act
April 28, 2026 12:45 pm
The husband argued before the Allahabad High Court that the family court committed a glaring error by deciding the suit under a non-existent statute, the 'Muslim Women Marriage Dissolution Act, 1986'.
Abandoning spouse in anger, disgust not desertion: Jharkhand High Court denies divorce to man
December 15, 2025 5:03 pm
Jharkhand High Court Judgement on Desertion Divorce Case: Jharkhand High Court said that the marriage took place on April 30, 2021, and the suit for dissolution for marriage was filed by the husband on September 1, 2022, which was within two years of the marriage due to which the family court rejected the said ground of desertion as alleged by the husband.
Can a foreign court divorce order apply to marriages in India? What courts have said
September 14, 2025 3:22 pm
The benchmark for how India treats foreign divorce decrees was set more than three decades ago in Y. Narasimha Rao v. Venkata Lakshmi (1991). Here is what courts have ruled over time.
SC rejects 89-yr-old’s plea to divorce wife aged 82: ‘Marriage invaluable emotional life-net’
October 13, 2023 8:17 am
The couple married in March 1963 and had two daughters and a son.
SC: Irretrievable breakdown of marriage amounting to cruelty, a ground for divorce
April 28, 2023 1:36 am
Allowing a plea by the husband, the trial court had dissolved the marriage on May 2, 2009. On appeal by the wife, the Delhi High Court set aside the trial court order on April 8, 2011, following which the man approached the Supreme Court.
One-year wait for seeking divorce by mutual consent is unconstitutional: Kerala HC
December 10, 2022 7:08 am
The High Court was acting upon a petition moved by a young Christian couple, challenging the refusal of a family court to enter their joint petition for divorce.
Gujarat HC terms divorce ‘social evil’, says concept of family to be protected for nation’s development
September 23, 2021 11:55 pm
The court’s observation came in an order, dated September 6 and pronounced by a division bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and VD Nanavati, while refusing to grant a declaration of dissolution of marriage on the basis of a customary divorce of a couple.
Woman divorced on ground of adultery cannot claim maintenance: Madras HC
August 16, 2015 8:22 pm
Justice S Nagamuthu said a divorcee would not have any right to claim maintenance if she "committed breach of the sexual obligation she had before dissolution of her marriage".
After SC nudge, Govt considers amending Christian divorce law
July 14, 2015 3:27 am
The apex court also urged the government to bring uniformity in the divorce laws across religions.
'Irretrievable breakdown of marriage' ground for divorce: Parliament panel
April 06, 2011 4:12 pm
Panel,however,will not do away with the 6-month waiting period for divorce by mutual consent.
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