News about this Supreme Court judgment have started appearing in many newspapers with the headlines which like “forcing husband to separate from his parents” or “forcing Hindu son to separate from parents” amounts to cruelty, and so on. As it happens, news headlines may a time don’t reflect the full picture of logic inside a judgment, and sometimes news reports may even highlight a secondary part of the judgment as the main reason when in fact the judgment was based mainly on other factors. This site contains very few judgments on topic of divorce, and the reasons are explained in detail in this and this post. The reason of covering this judgment here are that people shouldn’t get complacent that one judgment (though important one given that it’s by SC) about … [Read more...] about Wife’s attempt to separate husband’s parents, suicide attempt, unfounded allegation of extra-marital affair considered mental cruelty on husband for divorce – Supreme court judgment
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Bandra family court orders shared custody of child to both parents in interim order during divorce case
Subsequent to Law Commission’s report and recommendation on Shared parenting and Joint Custody to Law Ministry, a Mumbai family court has ordered both mother and father to jointly share custody of their six years old daughter. Shared parenting plan ordered for warring couple In a landmark order, the family court in the city has for the first time set out a shared parenting plan for a warring couple fighting for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and for custody of their child. By this order the estranged couple gets almost equal days -split six months down the year -with their six-year-old daughter as an interim measure till the disposal of the divorce plea. The child was in the physical custody of the father and the order brings relief to the non-custodial mother. The child will be … [Read more...] about Bandra family court orders shared custody of child to both parents in interim order during divorce case
Understanding the divorce industry in India
On Oct 26, 2014, Navodaya times (part of Punjab Kesari group) had published my interview as part of their Purush Shakti feature. The headline of the interview was titled as “All is well with the ongoing divorce industry”. As far as I know, this is the first time a media article has acknowledged the words divorce industry in an article headline, or probably even in body of the story. Now question may be asked that what is this animal called divorce industry, and whether it is justifiable to call something unfortunate as divorce as part of any industry? Is divorce really cool? Firstly, let me clarify that I don’t believe in the ‘cool thesis’ being put forth these days especially in mainstream western media that divorce can be good or healthy. The people who put … [Read more...] about Understanding the divorce industry in India
Why Indian men should be very careful in filing divorce
To better understand some of the terminology and context used in this post, reading some of the important posts is recommended. Now this post will cover the majority of cases of calls and issues received by men’s rights activists (MRAs) all over India. Almost 80-90% of callers have been into very short marriages, anywhere from 1 year to 3 years where the time wife was in same home as husband maybe anywhere from few weeks, few months, or maximum maybe 1.5 years or so. So even if the marriage happened 3 years back, the time wife stayed with husband maybe 1.5 years or so only. These are just guidelines. The important thing to understand is wife spent a significant time away from husband in initial few years of marriage and it was not due to practical issues related to … [Read more...] about Why Indian men should be very careful in filing divorce
Advice to men on 498a, maintenance, DV, divorce, child custody, what else
A picture is worth a 1000 words, so we start our advice to men post with above picture. Studying above picture for 5 minutes will give you as much benefit as reading the whole of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, because you have most probably come here as a ‘victim of biased laws’, ‘harassed husband’, etc. etc. , and you are not a military general anyway; though one of these days one of them may also land up here! I deliberately edited out the woman’s butt so you don’t spend the 5 minutes looking there Update history This is meant to be a mega-post / mega-article to be written in phases, and eventually it will be the main post on men’s rights having links to other posts on specific topics. Following is a history of updates for repeat visitors. 2-Oct-2014: Section Encyclopaedia of false … [Read more...] about Advice to men on 498a, maintenance, DV, divorce, child custody, what else
498a and maintenance: lose your illusions
I have been perplexed at the frequent arrival at this site by women (it can’t be men) after googling about IPC 498a and maintenance, yes, both those keywords together. One of these past days, I found so many of these searched keywords that I just had to save the screenshot that day which is given below. Above screenshot shows various google searched keywords by women who land up on my perennially popular post advising women on 498a, DV cases, maintenance, divorce etc. In above pic, have marked with numbers the various searched keywords about 498a, maintenance, DV, and their combos. First of all, a big thank you to all women coming to my website for getting some real education on 498a, DV, maintenance etc for women! That post is meant for your education, and even if … [Read more...] about 498a and maintenance: lose your illusions