India being a diverse country having several ethnic and religious community the Constitution of India provides liberty to its citizens to follow their ethnic and religious personal law in the area of marriage, divorce or judicial separation. Majority of the country being Hindu and for that law has been enacted…
The law related to maintenance of Muslim Wife can be found in the Crpc and The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 and over a period of time certain judgments have shaped the rights of muslim wife maintenance from husband. The constitutional bench of Supreme court speaking…
The term Stridhan is made of two hindi words “Stri” which means women and “Dhana” which means estate or property. According to Mitakshara and Dayabhag, the following in the hands of a women (maiden, married or widow) constituted Stridhan: Gifts that are made before the nuptial fire. Gifts that are…
The Supreme court of India while hearing a criminal appeal rose from an application for interim maintenance filed U/s 125 of Criminal procedure court by the wife and taking note of prevailing overlapping, jurisdiction and conflicting orders passed by different courts and to bring uniformity in the practice followed by…
Considering the malaise of constant abuse of procedural provisions which defeats justice i.e frivolous attempts by unsuccessful litigants to put up spurious objections and setting up third parties, to object, delay and obstruct the execution of a decree/order passed by the Courts the Full Bench of three Judges presided by…