Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News
In Hinduism, the wife is regarded as the “Sahadharmini”, meaning she shares in the spiritual duties and righteousness alongside her husband. This concept underscores the wife’s essential role in fulfilling religious obligations, particularly in the performance of rituals, where her presence is indispensable.
The petitioners are living beings and the fact that they are there, needs to be acknowledged in law. Hence, their names are required to be entered in the Panchayat records.
by Ravi Shankar* and Akanksha Natesan**
Making derogatory complaints against spouse demonstrate lack of mutual respect and goodwill, which is crucial for a healthy marriage and merely by stating that such complaints are made after parties had separated, in no manner absolves a spouse from the guilt of committing cruelty on the receiving end.
A wife’s withdrawal from matrimonial relationship unilaterally without any reason thereby depriving husband of conjugal bliss, since October 2013 till date, can only be inferred as an act of cruelty.
Unfortunate are the matrimonial disputes where the fountain head of friction inter se the spouses is mere lack of adjustment, understanding and the will to stay together. These factors are the wheels of the chariot of a workable marriage and if either spouse becomes averse to move together and chooses to abandon the relationship, then extensive reconciliatory efforts by one spouse, would also not yield any results.
Azoospermia means there is an absence of live spermatozoa in the semen. There could be various causes for such a condition, including obstruction of the tubules or ducts, i.e., the reproductive tract, or even due to infection, retrograde ejaculation or aspermatogenesis. Thus, azoospermia is categorized under two heads: obstructive and nonobstructive.
“Needless to say, matrimonial matters are matters of delicate human and emotional relationship and to maintain such relationship for a long, there is requirement of mutual trust, regard, respect, love and affection.”
“Any successful marriage is built on mutual respect and faith. If either is compromised beyond a level, the end of the relationship is inevitable as no relationship can stand on half-truth, half-lies, half-respect and half-faith.”
“Additionally, the attempted mediation settlement was also violated by the wife, who only wanted to enjoy the monetary benefits arising out of the settlement but never wanted to fulfil her end of the bargain”
“It is well settled that in the matrimonial house, the wife should not be treated as hired chattel or a bonded labour to stay under the conditions imposed by the husband.”
“In the Indian context where the husband has chosen to be in a joint family with his parents, he cannot be forced to separate from the first day of his marriage merely on the whims of his wife.”
“The child has not only been totally alienated, but has also been used as a weapon against the father. Nothing can be more painful for a parent to see the child drifting away and being totally against the father.”
“Their marriage had a rocky start and unfortunately, differences and the mistrust which got generated in the beginning did not let their relationship flourish further.”
“The marriage ties which if kept lingering on account of irreconcilable differences and protracted litigation, only bring more cruelty and acrimony.”
“Thus, while looking at acts of mental cruelty, the court must look at the married life as a whole and not merely a few isolated incidents.”
The Court said that the parties had reached a stage from where they cannot reconcile themselves, bury their differences and live together forgetting their past as a bad dream.
Meghalaya High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, CJ. dismissed a writ petition filed against the order of
Punjab and Haryana High Court: A Division Bench comprising of M.M.S. Bedi and Anupinder Singh Grewal, JJ. allowed an application filed by