The Supreme Court agreed to standardize a format which requires the parties to disclose income, assets and expenditure of themselves and their dependents on affidavits in alimony matters. This decision was taken while hearing an appeal challenging an order passed by the Allahabad High Court, which had directed an amount of Rs. 15,000 to be paid to the wife every month,
Law Commission chairman Justice BS Chauhan has been proposed with the draft of a ‘progressive uniform civil code’ which provided live-in and homosexual relationships. The draft-code debars discrimination between man, woman or a transgender in a marriage or a partnership in issues such as divorce, adoption, child custody and inheritance. Shikha TiwariI am a law student who is a
Invoking its inherent power to do ‘complete justice’, the Supreme Court has granted divorce to a district judge in West Bengal, whose wife, also a district judge, has been living separately for the past 17 years. Court reiterated that Article 142 of the Constitution for dissolution of a marriage can be invoked where the court finds that the marriage
