The Privy Council in Gopal Das and Anr. v. Sri Thakurji and Ors.   MANU/PR/0002/1943 : AIR 1943 PC 83, held that a statement made by a pers...

  Here's an overview of the rights of an illegitimate child to claim maintenance under the CrPC: Maintenance under CrPC (Section 125): S...

K. Conclusion 54. We now formulate our conclusions in the following terms: (i) In terms of Sub-section (1) of Section 16, a child of a marri...

At the very outset, it must be noted that the Petitioner himself has come before the court with a case that the minor child was born n...

 So far as Section 16 of the Act is concerned, though it was enacted to legitimate children, who would otherwise suffer by becoming illegi...

 Thus, it is now made more than clear that, the children of a void marriage, though regarded as legitimate, such children would not be ...

The next question to be considered is whether children born in that marriage could form members of the joint family as per the Hindu Law...

The Apex Court in  Smt. Yamunabai Anantrao Adhav v. Anantrao Shivram Adhav and Anr . (AIR 1988 SC 644) pointed out that S.5 of the Hindu...

The legal fiction created by the legislature is that children, though illegitimate, shall nevertheless, be treated as legitimate, notwith...

The Apex Court in  Smt. Yamunabai Anantrao Adhav v. Anantrao Shivram Adhav and Anr. (AIR 1988 SC 644) pointed out that S.5 of the Hindu ...

 So far as Section 16 of the Act is concerned, though it was enacted to legitimise children, who would otherwise suffer by becoming il...

 It is further pleaded that defendant No. 3 Gopal could not have become owner of the land S.No. 250 under the previous compromise decr...