Since there was no dispute about divorce and it was a ground available for maintenance under Section 125 Explanation (b), the learned Magist...

Cumulative reading of the relevant portions of judgments of this Court in Danial Latifi (supra) and Iqbal Bano (supra) would make it crystal...

 Learned counsel for the Petitioner-wife would urge that, even if the Petitioner is a divorcee, having regard to the provisions of Sub...

The short question raised in these appeals is whether a wife, who has been divorced by the husband, on the ground that the wife has des...

Thereafter, in  Rohtash Singh Vs. Ramendri  & Ors .   (2000) 3 SCC 180,  this Court took a similar view: "11. Learned counsel for...

While upholding the validity of the Act, we may sum up our conclusions: 1)  A Muslim husband is liable to make reasonable and fair pro...

Moreover, our law recognises the right of a divorced wife to get maintenance till her remarriage. This Act of 2005 provides additional r...

 In the present case, on the husband's petition, a decree declaring the second marriage as null and void has been granted. The learned...

 In the case of  Harbans Lal Malik  v.  Payal Malik  (Criminal Revision Petition No. 253 of 2010, dated 29.07.2010), Delhi High Court has ...

 It appears from the materials on record that the respondent No.2 got married with one Rakeshkumar Bhavsar in the year 1995. In the wed...

A Division Bench of Madras High Court in the case of K. Veeriah Vs. Muthulakshmi and others, 1999 Cr.L.J. 624, while dealing with the gr...

The principal contention raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that a decree for divorce having been passed under  Section...

 In another decision of the very coordinate bench in case of Narendrabhai Chandubhai Shah V/s. State of Gujarat, reported in 2013 (O) G...

    Both   the   learned   Judicial   Magistrate   First   Class  Pathri   and   the   learned   Sessions   Judge,   Parbhani,   who   d...

A widow is a woman, as we understand from the meaning of the term in its ordinary sense, whose husband is dead and who has not marr...

Thus, definition of "Economic abuse" means that if a woman is deprived of any economic or financial resources to which she is...

Similarly there would be no question of the husband and wife  living separately  by mutual consent because after divorce there  is no nee...

The phraseology used in Explanation (b) to Section 125(1) of the Code would not admit of creating classes of divorced wives. A divorc...

Under Section 127 of the Code, even though a divorced women had voluntarily surrendered to claim maintenance from her divorced husband ...