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Somewhere in the middle years of my practice, I stopped believing that the question of lump-sum versus monthly maintenance was a technical one, to be settled by a quick calculation and a standard clause in the settlement deed. I now think it…

Reflections from thirty-one years at the Bar Early in my career, a client asked me a question I have never quite stopped turning over. His marriage had lasted a single day — the couple had separated before the wedding night…

Over the years I have come to think that a marriage ends twice. It ends once in the heart, quietly, on some ordinary evening no one marks on a calendar, and it ends a second time in law, on a…

Reflections from thirty-one years at the Bar  I have lost count of the number of files that have sat on my table for a decade or more, growing thicker with every hearing, each one a marriage that ended years ago…

When a marriage breaks down in India, it rarely leads to just one court case. One dispute can turn into several a divorce case in the Family Court, a maintenance claim, and often a criminal case for cruelty under Section 85 of…

1. If a wife inflicts injuries on her body and threatens to file false criminal complaints against the husband and his family members, then the husband has three options: i) Collect more video evidence of her misconduct. ii) File pre-litigation…

In case of a litigation both the parties desire to have favorable judgments and some of them are ready and willing to adopt unethical practice of bribing the judge. Most of the lawyers conduct matters on the basis of merit…

Judges are appointed by the state to appreciate evidence produced before them and pass judgments in accordance with the principals of justice, equity and good conscience. The judges in the matrimonial matters are sensitive towards the emotional and factual matrix…

Once an FIR is filed by the wife against the husband and/or his family members with the concerned police station, then the husband must produce before the investigating officer the entire documentary evidences to defend himself against his wife’s false…

1. In a recent judgement the Hon’ble Bombay High Court has observed that the trial court/Family Court can not pass a divorce decree based solely on the WhatsApp messages. The Hon’ble Bombay High Court emphasised that the trial court/Family court must strictly…