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Family Law Articles


Succession Laws

  Rajkumar Adukia   18 March 2014 at 15:26

INTRODUCTION Sucession is the transmission of property belonging to a person at his death to some other person or persons. Succession and Inheritance can be of two kinds Testamentary or testate inheritance which means inheritance as per ..


Posted in Family Law |   19 comments |   31835 Views


Borderline personality disorder- do they qualify as insanity as required under Hindu Marriage act?

  Ipsita   28 September 2013 at 15:26

Borderline personality disorder- do they qualify as insanity as required under the Hindu Marriage act BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity, instability of mood and inte ..


Posted in Family Law |   2 comments |   4223 Views


Cruelty against Husband

  Ipsita   28 September 2013 at 15:25

ABSTRACT It is indeed a misfortune that the law which was enacted to protect the interest of a particular group of people is now being used by the same group of people in a fallacious manner. Earlier it was believed ..


Posted in Family Law |   19 comments |   21411 Views


Law of Maintenance in India under Personal Laws - An Analysis

  Subhajit Nath   18 July 2013 at 12:21

In Family Law maintenance is often used as a synonym for spousal support or alimony, and the term is in fact replacing alimony. Traditionally, alimony was solely the right of the wife to be supported by the husband. In Orr v. Orr,[1] the U.S. Supre ..


Posted in Family Law |   6 comments |   37519 Views


Writing a Will

  M Ram Pavan Kumar   09 July 2013 at 13:37

Will is a legal declaration of the intention of a testator through testamentary instrument with respect to his property, which he desires to be carried into effect after his death. It includes codicil and every document in writ ..


Posted in Family Law |   22 comments |   7689 Views


Child Custody: Importance of Interim Visitation Rights

  Adv Archana Deshmukh   27 May 2013 at 11:17

Custody of a child is a sensitive issue for both the parents. Few parents are able to keep themselves neutral and do not let their strained relationship affect their children. In many of the cases ..


Posted in Family Law |   26 comments |   9667 Views


Misuse of Domestic Violence Act

  Nitish Banka   16 April 2013 at 12:58

The domestic violence act hereinafter referred as dv act which was incorporated in the year 2005, The main purpose of this act is to prevent woman only woman from domestic violence, from the bare reading of the definition of the act we can see tha ..


Posted in Family Law |   59 comments |   19218 Views


Hindu Daughter's equal rights in ancestral/coparcenory property

  Adv.R.P.Chugh   06 February 2013 at 11:38

Since this is an area of profound concern these days, and Ive been facing endless queries on this, here is a basic & overly simplistic laymans view on the law as it was before 2005 and after it vis-a-vis daughters right in ..


Posted in Family Law |   22 comments |   12472 Views


Dowry Death and Indian Families

  Nitish Banka   28 November 2012 at 12:24

In todays Indian society dowry is like a norm, we see that people spend lavishly on marriages. The root cause of the problem starts from here, The parents of the bride fulfil all the wishes of grooms ..


Posted in Family Law |   7 comments |   3714 Views


Woman and Law

  Sivadas Chettur   15 November 2012 at 12:09

INTRODUCTION Whenever I think of a woman two quotes flash through my mind. The first quote by Brigham Young who said You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a ..


Posted in Family Law |   7 comments |   5179 Views