The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a wife calling her husband “Hijda” (transgender) is an act of mental cruelty, upholding the family court’s decision to dissolve their marriage due to irreparable breakdown.
A family court in Madhya Pradesh ordered a woman to pay ₹5,000 in monthly maintenance to her husband after separation. The case involved a husband who left college at his wife’s request and claimed unemployment while she ran a beauty parlour.
The Karnataka High Court doubled a stay-at-home mother’s maintenance, acknowledging that caring for children is a full-time job. The court dismissed the husband’s claims of financial instability and increased her maintenance from ₹18,000 to ₹36,000.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that a mother coaching her daughter to speak against her father amounts to mental cruelty, upholding a divorce petition filed by the father. The court highlighted the harmful effects of parental alienation in such cases.
The Delhi High Court ruled that a wife’s cruel behavior, including acting as a widow while her husband was alive, amounts to extreme cruelty. The court upheld the family court’s decision to grant divorce on these grounds.
The Delhi High Court ruled that false complaints filed against a spouse constitute an act of cruelty, upholding the husband’s divorce petition. The court noted that the wife’s malicious actions, including false allegations and withdrawal from mutual settlements, caused mental cruelty.
The Madras High Court overturned a Family Court decision requiring a wife to pay Rs. 20,000 as interim maintenance to her husband, citing insufficient proof of his inability to earn. The court ruled in favor of the wife and ordered the husband to pay maintenance instead.
The Uttarakhand High Court fined a husband Rs. 1 lakh for misleading his wife into signing divorce summons without her knowledge, setting aside the ex-parte divorce decree
The Kerala High Court has clarified that live-in relationships, established through mere agreements, are not legally recognized as marriages. Consequently, couples in such arrangements cannot seek divorce under the Special Marriage Act.
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a father must provide for his child, regardless of the mother’s earnings. The court overturned a family court’s decision that denied maintenance to a daughter based on her mother’s income.
