Raghav Arora 14 October 2025

What if a lady does not have proper residence and marriage proof in dv case?

I have a client who hails from Bihar and works as help. Now she is away from her state and working in another state as she was almost killed by the in-laws. She has decided to file a DV case to get maintanance for herself and also a divorce case. But, having been married at just 16 and about 8 years back, she has no pictures of marriage, no registration as such and no other doc to indicate that she was married to this guy.

Plus, she lives in chawl here and has no residence proof. No ID that states her to be a resident here.

My question is: in absence of these docs, what else can be shown in the Court to show territorial jurisdiction and the marriage between these two.

There must be so many aggrived woman from the lower strata who do not have these documents or updated documents. How do they sue their husbands?

Thank you Experts.

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T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate) 15 October 2025

Being a lawyer yourself you can find out the sources to establish her identity.

kavksatyanarayana (subregistrar/supdt.(retired)) 15 October 2025

Being a lawyer, and you teach lawyers, why this academic query?

LCI Thought Leader Raghav Arora 16 October 2025

Dear experts.
A lawyer, law student or litigant would come to a forum like our's with a hope to learn from the seniors.
If we cannot help them with an anecdote, experience or a provision, let us not discourage them.

There may be queries that are below your vast experience and knowledge and might sound academic, however, it may be very relevant and very much the soul of their argument next morning.

Hence, with all due respect, I would reuqest we all empathize with litigants and lawyers who are not as sharp and learned as our seniors and help them if we can and share the best insights we have.

By the way, this is a real issue I have actually faced. A strict judge in my Dist Court would not let a poor lady proceed with her DV matter becuase she does not have a Govt ID indicating an address here in the city and because she does not have pictures of the marriage.

I did try using the birth certificate of their daughter which has the names of both the parents but that did not work. Hence, this query. Super practical and real, not acamdemic (And academic is not barred on LCI. They are most welcome).

Satyanarayan Sir, I teach with a motive to learn and get great nuggets from my students in every class, as they get from my researched lectures. So no shying away from the fact that there is always a lot more to learn.