family law

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 Court weighs how maternity leaves affect pensions By SAM HANANEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Several Supreme Court justices questioned on Wednesday whether AT&T Corp. is discriminating against former employees by paying smaller retirement checks to women who took pregnancy leaves in the 1960s and 1970s. The court heard arguments in the case of ..

In a landmark verdict, the apex court in Nepal has given its consent to same-sex marriages, a move that beats off social taboos in the conservative valley. The apex court on Monday directed the Maoist-led government in Nepal to formulate necessary laws to guarantee full rights to gays, including right to same-sex marriage. "The court has instructed the government against making any discrimin..

THE CASE REGARDING VALIDITY OF CHILD MARRIAGE BEFORE SP. BENCH OF DELHI HIGH COURT WAS ADJOURNED FOR 12/12/2008. MR ARVIND JAIN WILL ARGUE THE THE CASE ON THE NEXT DATE.THIS IS GOING TO BE A STEPPING STONE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY...

ADVOCATE ARVIND JAIN TODAY ARGUED BEFORE SPECIAL BENCH OF DELHI HIGH COURT COMPRISING JUSTICE VIKRAM JIT SEN,SANJIV KHANNA AND V.K.SHALI ON CONTRADICTIONS AND CONFLICTING PROVISIONS OF LAW REGARDING CHILD MARRIAGE. HE submitted that nothing could be more barbarous and heinous than the laws regarding child marriage. In brief the legal position, specifically in regard to child marriage and conseque..

Is English law related to Muslim law? By Mukul Devichand In London's historic "Inns of Court", barristers practise law in the shadow of the distinctive medieval Temple Church. But does English law really owe a debt to Muslim law? For some scholars, a historical connection to Islam is a "missing link" that explains why English common law is so different from classical Roman legal systems ..

SC: Maintenance includes Right to Food, Clothing, Education The Supreme Court has held that the right to maintenance to a wife includes right to residence, food, clothing, education and medical care. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma, while disposing off the appeal of Ms Komalam Amma, noted ‘Maintenance, as we see it, necessarily must and encompass a provision ..

They Will Have To Reimburse Separated Wife’s Medical Expenses: SC New Delhi: Cost of estrangement continues to mount for husbands — who are mandated by law to pay the wife maintenance — with the Supreme Court churning out judgments giving a very expansive meaning to the word d ‘maintenance’. Soon after its ruling that maintenance for estranged wife included a house at par with the one in..

Chennai, Nov. 19: The Madras high court has suggested to the Union government that it bring an amendment to Section 2 of the Indian Divorce Act, which required the spouses belonging to Christianity be domiciled in India at the time of presentation of the divorce petition. Contending that if either of the spouses migrated to another country and the question of presentation of petition for dissoluti..

Kerala law reforms panel mulls proposal on muslim monogamy The Kerala Law Reforms Commission is mulling a proposal to make monogamy the general rule for Muslims in the State, with exceptions provided under only ‘socially exceptional’ circumstances. The Draft Committee of the Commission, headed by Noted Jurist, Mr Justice (Retd) V R Krishna Iyer, has circulated among Commission Members the dr..

All inter-religious marriages, except those within the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain communities, be required to be held only under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. According to a report submitted by the Law Commission of India for the purpose of matrimonial causes and remedies, the Special Marriage Act, 1954 provisions can be made applicable to them even if such a marriage has been solemnis..

In a ruling, having far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court has directed that all the marriages, irrespective of religion, will be compulsorily registered. The Court gave a time of three months to the centre and the state governments to frame and notify the rules in this regard. The Court gave clear directions to incorporate the ‘consequences of non-registration’ in such rules. The Court a..

MUMBAI: Having a test-tube baby may now involve hiring a lawyer along with a doctor. India’s new draft rules on infertility state that couples who need a surrogate mother will have to approach a semen bank instead of an infertility specialist to make a selection. Welcome to the future of infertility treatment as envisaged by the new Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill & Rules, 2..

Justice S N Dhingra of Delhi High Court has held that the old parents whose relations with their son and daughter-in law turn sour have every right to show them the door and the daughter-in law cannot claim any right to stay in their house claiming to be having a legal right to live in the matrimonial home. In the present case, an old couple staying in Ashok Vihar filed a suit in the Delhi ..

NEW DELHI: Japanese surrogate baby Manji may have thrown up a huge debate between purists and the needy about the ethicality of surrogacy, but the Supreme Court not only validated “commercial surrogacy” but also termed it a virtual industry in India. In its judgment in the Manji case on Monday, the apex court allowed the child’s biological grandmother to approach the Centre for travel document..

On the suggestions of a Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, a bench comprising Justice M B Shah and Justice S N Variava also directed the Central Supervisory Board (CSB) to meet every six months to review and monitor the implementation of the act. This order came on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Centre for Inquiry into Health and Allied themes (CEHAT) which submitted that the male f..