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Family law self help center

  Swami Sadashiva Brahmendra Sar   15 May 2009 at 20:02

On the lines of alaska court system, we can also establish family law self help centers. In Alaska the center helps in following manner: What is the Family Law Self-Help Center? The Family Law Self-Help Center is a statewi ..


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Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 Empowering Women

  Rahul   24 April 2009 at 08:15

Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 –Empowering Women? Westernisation and globalization have radically changed the face of India. This change is most evident in its effect on the Hindu Joint Family system. Families that would give the saas-bahu se ..


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Divorce in India - The Social Impact

  Aadil    19 March 2009 at 13:43

Divorce in India - The Social ImpactBy Raveendran Nambyar Arranged marriages fail some times, may be far and few in India. The arranged marriages do not break up that easy. There are several reasons why arranged marriages do not fail that much. A lot ..


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Abortion Laws Must Be Urgently Amended

  AEJAZ AHMED   05 March 2009 at 10:48

Abortion Laws Must Be Urgently AmendedBy Puneet Bedi :Every time I look at the ultrasound monitor to see the foetus from various angles, mothers read my face to see a twitch or a smile to suggest the baby is normal. Unfortunately their simple questio ..


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MARRIAGE LAW REFORMS

  Prakash Yedhula   12 February 2009 at 00:08

As part of the continuing judicial reforms process in the country , necessary amendments were effected in the Personal Law Reforms during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in July this year.The Acts which came under the purview of the Amendments inc ..


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Miscarriage of Fast Track Justice

  Abhishek   31 January 2009 at 18:17

The comment of Justice A.S. Anand, former Chief Justice of India and Chairman National Human Rights Commission that the acquittal decision in Best Bakery trial by a fast track court as 'miscarriage of justice', is not confined to just that case only, ..


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~MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY~

  Abhishek   23 January 2009 at 07:58

How section 312 of IPC read with the Medical termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 infringe the right to life of the mother?Section 312 of the Indian Penal Code read with the Medical termination of Pregnancy act, 1971 where all the restrictions imposed ..


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New Laws in India Target Mothers' Workplace Equality, Leave Out Fathers

  Abhishek   22 January 2009 at 19:03

Several decades ago, urban primary schoolers grew up, through their textbooks, on a staple diet of a "normal" family as one where the father was the one who worked to earn and the mother stayed at home to look after the family - cooking, cl ..


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Property Rights and the Indian Woman

  AEJAZ AHMED   18 January 2009 at 13:09

Property Rights and the Indian Woman The development and progress that characterises post-Independence India has also given rise to a breakthrough in the Indian woman's fight for justice and equality. Such hopes were formerly denied to them by relig ..


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Live-In Relationships in India Accorded Legal Status

  Prakash Yedhula   11 January 2009 at 12:55

A couple of years ago, India witnessed a very poignant moment which till then was uncommon in the Indian psyche -- despite the huge foreign troop presence in the neighborhood, the Taliban-sponsored unrest in two countries of the continent and India' ..


Posted in Family Law |   3695 Views