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Wife’s denial to indulge in sexual act is a cruelty and a solid ground for divorce

Wife’s denial to having sex with husband without any specific reason has been considered as cruelty as well as a solid ground for divorce as per the ruling of Karnataka High Court. The court observed while rejecting a woman’s appeal seeking to set aside a decree of divorce granted by the family court: “The husband can’t be made to suffer for no fault of his and be deprived of his natural urge to enjoy sexual happiness if the wife is unwilling to share the bed and discharge her duties.”The wife had approached the honourable High Court while challenging the previously given order by the family…

Wife’s retaliation can’t be a ground for divorce

Recently, the Gujarat High Court has ruled that retaliation by tortured wife to acts of harassment can’t be considered as the amount to cruelty and the husband cannot be granted divorce on the said ground. It gives a relief to the married woman who was threatened with divorce by her husband. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala gave this verdict recently in the case of a couple who are in their late 60s and the husband wanted to divorce his wife after 30 years of marriage. The court refused to grant divorce to the petitioner husband.The bench of acting…

Wills, Probate and Succession- Full Guide

The Laws of Succession in IndiaLaws of Succession deal with the legal guidelines for distributing a decedent’s assets. These include the sequence in which one person succeeds to the property or estate of the deceased in preference to all others, one person after another, or any one person in particular. Perpetual-existing corporations are not covered by this and are subject to different laws regarding winding up, reorganization, and closure.The laws of succession can be roughly divided into two categories: first is if the deceased has left behind a valid and enforceable ‘Will’; and second is…

The wives who are financially stable can’t make any claim for maintenance - High Court

Intellectually speaking, there is no law in India that does not have a room to be misused. In the recent past, our legal machinery has proactively worked for the welfare of the women of this nation but the laws that were enacted so many times registered a drastic misuse. As per the information collected by Save Indian Family Foundation 47975 women were arrested for making false use of the most popular 498 a in the year 2012.In the light of the above there are so many provisions to which even the Courts sometimes rethink before giving their decisions. The same happens so many times when it…

A woman has no right over the property of her in-laws other than husband - Delhi Court

A woman’s right over the property of her husband is really an undisputed fact but her claiming over the property of her in-laws is unlawful as per the decision of a Delhi Court. The Court entirely dismissed the appeal of a woman who was a doctor by profession and wanted rights over the property of her in laws on which her husband did not have any share.“If it is anybody against whom or against whose property she (woman) can assert her rights, is the husband, but under no circumstances can she thrust herself on the parents of her husband or can claim a right to live in their house against…

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