Legal questions on Family Law

Women's rights in a divorce

My mother married into a family 4 years ago, when her spouse and my stepfathers spouses died. She is not working.My stepfather also has three children. He kept the money from the sale of my mothers' property at the time of marriage. Since four years, he has been inflicting mental torture on her daily, fighting with her about every small thing just to torture her, complaining about each act of m...

Please advise me on my marital issues for dowry and Dv

Hello, I'm married last year and I'm currently doing my PhD. My husband lives isn USA on his H1B visa. After marriage, I joined my husband in the USA for a short term (during my vacation) and he always verbally abused me that I'm still a student and I'm not earning enough money to run the family in the US. I got married in June 2016 and I was sending 1000$ every month for my expenses share to...

Disagree on Marriage

My family arranged one girl for my marriage.After the date finalization we started talking and it was found that she is the perfect girl for me and also well behaved, have respect for elders and seems to be a very well managed housewife.She is very much loveable and also love me so much. But the problem create just 20 days before the marriage.Actually she had a relationship in her past life jus...

Unregistered mother's will

My mother was running ill and was loosing hope day by day. During her illness she made her hand written WILL (unregistered) in presence of two witnesses. Unfortunately she could not survive to get her WILL registered. After this incident (1 year later) my father made a registered WILL and in my father’s WILL there are clear details of my mother’s WILL with date of execution and other details...

Harrassment by Husband & his mother

Hi, Im from chennai and i got married on 27/12/2016. Its alove and arranged by islamic procedure. On the day of marriage itself my Mother in law fight in the public with my family to give dowry. Also My husband left me with my parents and went to Dubai for Job on 10.01.2017 (10+ days after marriage). Before marriage he promised that he will take me to Dubai along with in three months. But ...

Notice sent by wife for divorce on mutual consent.

Dear Lawyers, We both are classmates, loved each other and married in 2010. My wife is government employee and i am working in private company. Like every other couple we had small misunderstandings and small fights that i never though are big and forget it. Three months ago we had small fight and she left the house and went to her parents house. I literally begging her to come back from all...

Protection from false dowry case

Hello dear sir/ma'am It's been only three months since I got married, my wife is belongs to hyderabad and i am from gujrat. Firstly we know each other through shaadi.com and decided to get marry. But now i realized that my wife is fraud and just came here to case a false dowry case and loot for money. She told me before marriage that this is her second marriage but after marriage she told me...

Need maintainance, alimony as well as divorce asap.

This Kanoon.com is the last resort for me to seek valid legal advice. It's been six years of my second marriage as well as my husband's too and almost for last five years I am going through worse situations in my life. Every time, whether day or night, my husband does verbal as well as non-verbal violence, abuses me in and out, humiliates me, beats me, a full womanizer etc. He tortures me like ...

Wife Cheated

Hi Team, Please help me am completely mentally sick,my wife cheated me in so many ways,first of all ours is love marriage with in 3 months of love we got married as per hindu marriage,period of marriage is 18 months.Before our marriage she as illegal affairs with persons and she got abort items recently i got to know and asked her regards that she said that yes,but i dont have any evidence and...

Making 1st move to divorce

Hello, It's been 6month I m married. My in-laws is harassing me everyday. My mother in law n sister in law picks up fights on small matters. I almost work like a maid. They don't give me any respect. They keep on talking on my look and my dressing style. I don't hv any freedom. But I went through all this situation because my husband was with me ???that I was thinking till last month. Las...

Will Getting Divorce in Australia be Valid in India?

My cousin is living in Australia from last 10 years. He went to India to find a nice girl in 2014&he found one & got engaged & did a court marriage. He applied his PR (in 2016) & added his wife as a secondary dependent & she got PR because of him. Now last year, they got married with Hindu rituals. No dowry was taken by him. His wife lived after the marriage only for 10 days with the parents &t...

Marital

I am Shweta sinha from Bhopal.I was married in 2015 and I have a baby of 1yr .Actually my father -in-law touches me wrongly most of the times and my sister -in-law always fights to me ,always scold me and some times tried to beat me also.my mother-in-law always all these things and if I say about my father-in-law to my husband or my mother-in -law ,they say that -" ki beti mankr karte hain WO t...

Lesbian wife - torture

Hi All, I got married in the month of March 2017, We got married post 7 months being in touch with each other. I was given a picture that her previous husband was very suspicious and abusive. She is a working women. Post marriage I took a very good care of her daughter, home and herself however there was an instinct which was haunting me that she is not at all connected to me in any which was ...

Adamant husband and mental harassment by his family members.

I am 21yr old . Last 21st Aug I got married to a 31yr old boy. My father was running a business which went in a big loss and we have to sell all the property to settle the issues. At this stage the boys father approached my father, convinced in repeated approach, that only the boy and his parents are only in their house. His two elder sisters got married and settled, I can rule like a queen for...

False dowry allegations from ex-fiance

Recently my Brother In Law's Marriage got cancelled as the girl denied to marry stating our thinking doesn't match. Her family gave us 7lac Rs to prepare jewelry of the bride. We asked them to take back all the jewelry with bill as the marriage got cancelled and asked to settle engagement expenses 50-50. They denied to take the jewelry back and asked to returned cash, which we did bearing loss...

Harassment by spouse

Sir, I'm married for 14 months and it was an arranged marriage. My wife from the second or third month had petty issues with my sister and mother and they grew up to an extent that I have decided to float a separate family so that they don't get worse. The process of setting up seperate family delayed due to my child's birth and now in a weeks time I'm planning to get set with a separate family...

Matrimonial dispute

Meri marraige 24nov2016 ko hui.first of all,ye meri and mere husband ki second marraige h.shaadi k baad mere in-laws mujse sahi behave ni krte the.vo mujse tauting me kehte h ki ye shaadi hmari hasiyat k hisaab se ni hui,kabi kehte ki shaadi me gold ka samaan kam diya etc..mere husband bhi mujse ladte the agar mei unse baat krti.2months me halaat itne bigad gye ki meri saas na muje khana,deti o...

Name Misspelt

Hello, My wife was filed a false domestic voilence case against me to harass me. She was previously married, however she registered herself as single with the matrimonial website and hid this truth from me for few weeks.. After i expressed my desire to marry her she told me that she is an adopted child and she was previously married for around 1 year and has divorced her ex husband since he ...

Consequence of my action.

My husband has filed a divorce case against me and since he never explained why he has done so (he has been creptic about the whole thing - he left his job three months of us getting married, left his job in bangalore and sneaked back to his parents place in Dehradun without ever informing me, I am working in Delhi and since we had no source of income, I continued my job, in the meanwhile he sa...

Wife asking to either buy or transfer parents house on her name

Dear All, I got married 4 years ago. After 1 year of marriage she started asking me to buy plot or flat on her name. So i filled HUDA and DDA flats on her name only, but not lucky enough to get name in lottery. So in end of 2013 we opened an account in Y bank on joint name (me being 1st owner) and started to transfer my savings and money left from salary to Y bank. Then she felt ill and after ...