Legal questions on Family Law

Divorce

I did not want to get married but I was persuaded by my family by emotionally torturing me. I got influenced and married the guy of their choice . All the time spent in the courtship I never got attracted to him nor was I interested. I told my parents that it will be hard for me after marriage as I don't like the guy. But they kept telling me they cannot do anything now. They told me they can't...

Divorce from my wife who alway treat me and my family as slaves and abuses and threaten us of jail

I am 25 my living girlfriend was and is very demanding see as me to leave home friends and stay with her , I love her idid what every she as even did registered marriage. She is very abusive and beat me up regularly, still I don't mind . As long as she was faithful with me . She work as a bar dancer I am a struggling actor model . She has some irregular income sometime she brings in 50k in oned...

A Husband's dilemma in the face of toxicity

Hi, I have been married for 5 years. I have a 4 years old daughter. Initially, my parents were somewhat cruel to my wife. So, with the mutual consent of both my parents and in-laws, I decided to be a "resident son-in-law" as my father-in-law had no son/s(but the way it happened was a bit too complicated). Over these 4 years (since 2019), I have done favors on them and they have done some favo...

About court marriage

My girlfriend's parents were forcing her to marry another guy and she tried all the way to tell them she want get married to me they did not obey her so she came out of her home and she said she don't want to go back home I took her to another place to discuss about this as she was scared to be here, next day one of her family friend cought us and took us to the police station her parents spoke...

498a fir quashing with compromise

I have reached a compromise with my wife, agreeing to settle for a sum of 20 lakhs. Initially, I disbursed 10 lakhs during the first motion of the Section 13B application, and subsequently, she withdrew the Section 125 and DV Act 12 cases. To address the FIR under Section 498 A, 323, and 406, I approached the High Court in Chandigarh with a Section 13B compromise statement, seeking the quash...

Husband cheating wife and harassing her and her family

My husband keeps shout and fight with me and calls my parents and threaten by shouting and by doing man handling on me and throwing me out of his house couple of times. I'm a working women and I would like to stay as a family but not able to tolerate after 5years approximately. I have given to my husband 15laks of money, I have his illegal affair proofs and he never support me personally nor in...

Harassment from mother in law

I am married ,it’s been 5 years .from last 5years I faced a lot from mother in law and their family .It’s a joint family . In early years of marriage ,my mother in law demanded so many things from my parents and scolding me for my dark skin complexion.after few years I got pregnancy issues I got several operations after all those efforts I got pregnant now I am mother of two kids one boy and on...

Interim maintainance order

I am Ritu from punjab, I filed DV against my husband and inlaws in December 2021 and the court has decided my interim maintainance in September 2023 which is approx 30% of my husband's income in hand ( as per his affidavit). I am also working and getting almost one third of his salary. I have minor son also who is 8 years old and staying with me only. I didn't leave him rather he left both of ...

Wife's Matrimonial Home

Hello Respected Lawyers, i recently got married in June 2023 and was an arranged marriage. Things started to move really harsh and i have a lot of interference from her parents and her parents has called for several meeting with my relatives, This is not acceptable to me. There has been no understanding among us and lot of trust issues. We used to live at my mothers home for 4 months aft...

Wife Threatening to file divorce and demanding family property share immediately

Hi, I moved recently back to my parents' home after a gap of 12 years (having lived away with my family since second year of marriage) but with their consent (as both in their 80's; property being my father's own which he bought from his share of my grandfather's original property) including that my own financial condition also a bit challenging in terms of job-shifting etc. However, an...

498a

My wife filed a divorce case first in July in which address was incorrect but I got the message from the court and I appointed a lawyer and replied on second date of hearing. Counseling will happen in December. 2 Month later in Sept , she filed a DV case aganist everyone in family. Now later I'm getting calls from Women cell ( Bhorasa cell Pune ) over phone to come to Pune in 1-2 before the dat...

Mental harrasment by parents

I am a 30+ unmarried woman. My father is 74 years old. Since childhood he has mentally harassed me. My parents used to constantly fight and make me suffer by torturing, beating and verbally abusing. Me and my mother were constantly asked to leave the house. Father never paid any attention to me and my needs inspite of being a govt employee. I was a bright student among first five toppers, yet m...

What should I do?

20 , Btech graduate working in MNC rajput, Virgin when met my husband 26, 12th pass, unsuccessful business and huge debt that he hid from me when we met back in 2019, after knowing I still didn't leave him because I was physical , his father got us married secretly and afterwards he went to canada.He was okay in the beginning but didn't wanted me to come afterwards but I threatened that I will ...

My toxic ex threatening me to the core

Hi sir , I am pursuing my bachelors and during my third year i falled in love with a guy from jammu and kashmir . he proposed me and i accepted thinking he is a nice guy starting he was so good with words praising me and he is so introvert thats what i saw but later after getting to know him . He lied about his family, education he made like he is a rich kid so that i will fall for him harder b...

Replacing biological father's name with adoptive father's in passport

Dear sirs, I have a daughter from my first marriage which was divorced in 2012. The decree had clearly stated that the biological father has given full custody to the mother, with limited visitation rights and that the mother will solely maintain the daughter. I have remarried and my 18years old daughter lives with me and my second husband. We three are very happy and my second husband lo...

My elder son wants to be with me

I am in an unusual situation. I got married in the year 2010 and I have 2 sons. Elder one is 11 years and second one is 6 years. Mine was inter-religion love marriage and things started turning out bad very soon after our marriage. I was suffering from bad marriage but could not come out of it because of my kids. in the year 2020, during corona peak time, my husband and I were doing night shift...

Regarding the summon which is not issued to me

Hi, Presently I am living in UAE. My wife who lives in India had filed a divorce case against me in the family court in India. She knows all of my contact numbers (UAE number,India number, Whatsapp number, IMO number, BOTIM number and my E-mail id). She also knows my UAE office address. (Note: I don't have any relatives from my parent's side. I had lost my parent's at my age of 20. Now I am...

Regarding not returning of dowry gold and istridhan articles

Hi I am 29 years old. My husband’s mother kept all my jewellery in her bank lockers. It was a huge amount of jewellery. However the marriage fell apart after i faced lot of harassment in their house and came back to my parents home. I lodged an FIR under 498 A, section 406 with the police. Yet they didn’t return my gold jewellery. They simply returned few clothes and said i have taken my je...

Sma over nikah

Hi, I'm a Muslim man who wants to perform marriage with a Bengali woman. We are certain to perform SMA and get married. To retain our names identity, religion and lifestyle individually, respecting each other's way in one house. Only for a spectacle, we want to perform Nikah, to avoid any internal family issues. Post which we will be able to live freely on our choice and follow our respecti...

Christian couple married 30 years ago, where should they get marriage certificate?

Case: A Christian couple married in Delhi about 30 years ago, and received a marriage certificate from their church in Delhi under the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872. They have since been residing in Noida, U.P. and all their ID proof is of Noida. As per the visa process for travel, they are required to submit a marriage certificate. Questions: 1. If Christian marriage certificates ar...