Family Laws

Trisha Singh vs Anurag Kumar 2024 INSC 450 – Marriage Dissolved- Wife Conduct – Resiling From Settlement

Summary: SC dissolves marriage taking note of wife’s conduct -[the petitioner-wife having taken advantage of the settlement executed before the Mediator has managed to get the matrimonial case instituted by the respondent-husband withdrawn. She has also accepted a sum of Rs.50 lakhs from the respondent-husband towards part payment of the permanent alimony and thereafter, she …

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Col Ramneesh Pal Singh vs Sugandhi Aggarwal 2024 INSC 397 – Parental Alienation Syndrome

Parental alienation syndrome- PAS is a thoroughly convoluted and intricate phenomenon that requires serious consideration and deliberation. In our considered opinion, recognising and appreciating the repercussions of PAS certainly shed light on the realities of longdrawn and bitter custody and divorce litigation(s) on a certain identified sect of families, however, it is equally important to …

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Maya Gopinathan vs Anoop SB 2024 INSC 334 – Matrimonial Cases – Standard Of Proof – Stridhan

Stridhan -Gifts made to the bride by the bride’s husband or her parents or by relatives from the side of her husband or parents, at the time of marriage, constitute her stridhan- The properties gifted to a woman before marriage, at the time of marriage or at the time of bidding of farewell or thereafter …

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Prakashchandra Joshi vs Kuntal Prakashchandra Joshi @ Kuntal Visanji Shah 2024 INSC 55 :: [2024] 1 S.C.R. 697- Article 142 Constitution -Irretrievable Breakdown Of Marriage

Constitution of India, 1950; Article 142- Exercise of jurisdiction under Article 142 (1) of the Constitution of India is clearly permissible to do ‘complete justice’ to a ‘cause or matter’ and this Court can pass an order or decree which a family court, trial court or High Court can pass and when such power is …

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