Somehow i dont feel very convinced about this judgement. While courts spend a lot of time trying to reconcile differences between husband and wife to ensure the santity of "marriage" is upheld, they should also ensure that the santity of "family" is also not compromised. Just because the wives come from their home to the matrimonial home and start looking at FIL & MIL as 3rd persons and try to pull the husband out of family is no way justifiable. This is one more weapon that women have now and sadly, fueled by courts also.
Everybody have their own preferences. There is nothing wrong in people wanting for a nuclear family. However these things needs to be expressed upfront. What if a girl prefers only nuclear family, but hides it from the boy at the time of marriage (who always wants to be in a joint family structure and expresses it upfront) and pressurizes for nuclear family post marriage?? Isnt this break of Trust?
When the courts not worried about breaking the "joint family" culture, why are they bothered about live-in-relationships?? If they are not bothered about our tradition of joint family and accept the western culture of nuclear family, then why cant they adopt the western culture of laws on matrimony & divorce???
