C. Veerudu Vs. State Of A.P.(1989) CR. L.J. NOC 52(A.P.) S. 498 A The sole constituent of offence u/s 498 A is cruelty which means 'wi...

  Counseling and mediation play important roles in matrimonial conflict resolution, especially in the context of Section 89 of the Code of C...

    As regards the allegations made in pleadings, Courts have considered this question time and again and it is now no longer res integra th...

 We may conclude observing that when the Court makes an award of permanent alimony or for one time payment, it is not founded on any stipula...

We may add that the spouses had set up their matrimonial home in England where the wife was working as a clerk and the husband as a bus ...

 If a party wants a declaration that there was no marriage and no marriage was conducted and thereby the status of the wife or husband sho...

    A husband seeking maintenance from the wife can be treated only as exceptional case as normally he has got the liability or oblig...

Mainly,   it   would   be   necessary   to   consider   the   evidence   of   the husband and his witnesses, as it is well settled that ...

The normal rule which governs civil proceedings is that a fact can be said to be established if it is proved by a preponderance of probabil...

The word 'fraud' has not been defined in the Act. It has, however, been defined in Section 17 of the Indian Contract Act thus-- ...

To prove desertion in matrimonial matter, it is not always necessary that one of the spouse should have left the company of the other a...

 The only question that has to be decided in this case is whether the appellant had voluntarily withdrawn from the society of the respond...

In paragraph 4 of the complaint, there is a general allegation that the cash and gifts which the respondent No. 2 and accused No. 1-Vai...

 So far as filing of the case under the Domestic   Violence Act   is concerned, the learned Counsel for the appellant submitted that bec...

Then comes the wife filing a petition under  Section 498-A  of IPC and initiating proceedings under  Section 125  Cr.P.C. However, mere fi...

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A Bombay High Court Bench at Nagpur, comprising Justice Vasanti A. Naik and Justice Prasanna B. Varale recently mulled over the question...

There is no obligation cast by the statute on the party praying for the relief of dissolution of marriage that he/she should call upon ...