“Child cannot be used as a pawn to prove allegation of adultery against wife”; SC lays down scope of using DNA profiling in divorce cases
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The Supreme Court held that merely because either of the parties have disputed a factum of paternity, it does not mean that the Court should direct DNA test or such other test to resolve the controversy. Only in exceptional and deserving cases, where such a test becomes indispensable to resolve the controversy the Court can direct such test.

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The 3-judges Bench of Supreme Court has stayed the impugned order of the Kerala High Court whereby the High Court had asked DLSA to record statements of the detenu and make her undergo counselling. Allegedly, the woman has been kept in illegal detention by her parents.

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Bombay High Court held that maintenance cannot be denied because of possession of higher qualification by wife considering the wife is unemployed.

Karnataka High Court
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A Family Court order allowed a husband to seek mobile tower record details of the petitioner’s mobile number, so that he can prove the existence of illicit relations between the petitioner and his wife. The Karnataka HC sternly quashed the same citing violation of petitioner’s Right to Privacy

Madras High Court
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Madras High Court held that the contempt petition is not maintainable and barred by limitation. Thus, dismissed contempt proceedings against the presiding officer of Family Court as he was not the presiding officer when the order was passed.

Kerala High Court
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    Kerala High Court: In a case filed seeking the release of maintenance amount as in the instant set of facts

Madras High Court
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    Madras High Court: The full bench of P.N. Prakash, Teekaa Raman and A.D Jagadish Chandira, JJ. held that the jurisdiction

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    Supreme Court: While deciding a case filed under Section 125 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), in which the appeal

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    Telangana High Court: In a case where the offences alleged against the petitioners under Section 498-A of the Penal Code,

Bombay High Court
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    Bombay High Court: In an appeal filed by wife challenging the judgment and decree dated 22-11-2005, passed by the Family

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    Uttaranchal High Court: While dismissing the instant appeal against the order dated 25-08-2022 passed by Family Court whereby the wife’s

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Supreme Court: In an appeal directed against the judgment passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, confirming the Family Court’s order

Bombay High Court
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    Bombay High Court: In a case filed by a wife (‘appellant') challenging the Family Court order that granted decree of

Kerala High Court
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Kerala High Court: In a divorce case where the Family Court had refused to hear the case on priority for early disposal,

Kerala High Court
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    Kerala High Court: While adjudicating a divorce case, the Division Bench of A. Muhamed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas*, JJ., raised

Kerala High Court
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    Kerala High Court: In a case relating to talaq as per Muslim personal law and bigamy, A. Muhamed Mustaque, J.

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Supreme Court: In a complex case where both the parties claimed to be disabled to get the matrimonial case transferred to the

Delhi High Court
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The malafide intentions of an estranged husband is to depress his income as much as possible, for sadistic pleasure, of seeing the agony of someone, who has no choice, but to be dependent on him, may be dictated by egoistic propensity to also possibly teach his wife a lesson for not falling in line with whatever be his dictates.

Karnataka High Court
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    Karnataka High Court: The Division Bench of Alok Aradhe and J.M. Khazi, JJ. dismissed an appeal filed by a husband

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Kerala High Court: The Division Bench comprising A. Muhamed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas, JJ., held that cruelty has to be assessed from