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“The Family Courts Act, 1984 was enacted pursuant to the 59th Report of the Law Commission wherein it was stressed that in dealing with the disputes concerning the family, the family court should adopt an approach radically different from that adopted in ordinary civil proceedings.” The Delhi High Court made an important decision about court […]

Family Court Judge Harish Kumar accepted majority of the allegations made by Dhawan against his estranged wife and held that she subjected him to mental agony and cruelty. In a recent judicial pronouncement rendered on Wednesday, a family court situated in Delhi successfully adjudicated the contentious matter involving Shikhar Dhawan and Aesha Mukerji. The outcome

The Delhi High Court has opined that the act of establishing friendships, whether at the workplace or elsewhere, by individuals, including married couples, during periods of separate residence due to vocational obligations, does not per se constitute cruelty. The Court has articulated that a person living in solitude may seek solace in forming friendships, and

The Court also noted that making friends at the workplace or talking to them is not a cruel act or an act of ignoring the wife, particularly when the spouses were living apart due to the nature of their work. The Delhi High Court has judicially determined that in the context of divorce proceedings, the

The Delhi High Court has observed that a husband living with another woman, after long years of separation from his wife with zero possibility of re-union during the ongoing divorce proceedings, cannot disentitle him from seeking divorce on proven grounds of cruelty by the wife. A division bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice

The Delhi High Court recently ruled that a divorced daughter cannot claim maintenance from her maternal side (mother or brother) under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act (HAMA). The division bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Neena Bansal Sharma observed that there were 9 categories of dependents under Section 21 of the HAMA,