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Legal status granted to Indian transgenders

In India, the nation’s preeminent court has legitimately distinguished transgender individuals as a third sex. The Apex Court on Tuesday awarded the transgender groups with the same essential rights as other Indian nationals have taking a move that looks to end hundreds of years of segregation.Activists respected the verdict, as it includes all groups, for example, transsexuals, cross-dressers, and eunuchs. India’s Law Minister Kapil Sibal said the judgment might help the transgender group overcome social and financial tests. About two million transgender individuals are evaluated to live in…

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Legal suggestions for landlords to avoid everyday disputes with their tenants

If you are an owner of a property, alongside the rental income that you receive, you will likewise need to adapt to inhabitants’ issues sooner or later. Some of them will be reasonable dissentions from dependable occupants, while different objections will be held up by inhabitants who are completely nonsensical or attempting to gain something at your expense. The way to maintain a strategic distance from both extremes is to know how to order these grievances and determining issues in a manner that will be useful to both parties as fast as possible.Points to Ponder:[*] Learn about current…

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Legal terminology used in the matters of property possessions

Property is a piece of real estate that is owned legally by the owner. Usually, property passes from a generation to next generation and so on. Usually, property is acquired within a family, when it passes from one generation to the other. All these transferring activities are regulated under The Indian Succession Act, 1925, Transfer of Property Act 1882, and the Registration Act, 1908 and The Hindu Succession Act, 1956.The various modes through which the property acquisitions take place are as follow:Will – it’s a legal instrument which is done by a person while he or she is alive, but comes…

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A Litigant Perspective Of The Child Custody Law In India

There has been a whirlwind of actions on the personal law front in our nation in the recent past. A change looking to include ‘irretrievable’ breakdown of marriage as a ground for separation to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954 is in the wings. There are likewise procurements on imparting marital property and waiving the statutory cooling period before a legitimate disintegration of marriage. Surely, personal law change is a need given that the majority of our laws are obsolete. The laws governing child custody in India are part of the Guardians and Wards Act…

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LIVE IN RELATIONSHIP

LIVE IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONE MARRIED MAN WITH ONE UNMARRIED WOMAN OR VICE – VERSA NOW IS LEGAL IN INDIAIn India there exist only one kind of relationships between an unrelated couple of a male and female, the said social union is formed as “marriage”, which is more of sacrament and divine concept and is practiced as a ritual since ages. But for number of reasons this concept is losing its divineness. Love cannot be the only reason to marry, sometimes marriage are forced on couples. Therefore a live in relationship introduced in society as a substitute for marriage but now days it is not…

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