Family Law & Divorce

Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage. Family law advocates handle the divorce process. Let us see how to choose one. While it is critical to hire a lawyer who is skilled and knowledgeable, it is also crucial to find an advocate with whom you feel personally comfortable. Divorce is typically an intensely emotional process that necessitates delicate interpersonal skills in addition to legal knowledge. Completing a divorce without hiring a lawyer may make sense, provided neither party has representation and no minor children are involved. Howeve...

The Income Tax Department has introduced various tax benefit schemes to promote the education and literacy benefit for the citizens. The schemes reduce the amount of taxable income and help in reducing the amount of tax payable. The Indian government has allowed tax exemption on the tuition fee paid. For some of the salaries, individuals payment of education fees is part of the salary structure. The government pays educational expenses of the government employees from the Children education allowance. The Central Pay Commission, established to provide r...

The cabinet currently proposed the legal age of marriage in India to be increased from 18 to 21 years for females, supported by the Child Marriage Restraint Act and the Special Marriage Act, 1954 and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. On the 74th anniversary of India's independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the government would have to consider the minimum age of marriage for girls, based on a suggestion from a committee made by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. The explanation is related to the evolution of th...

Adoption can be seen as taking up one's child and bringing it up as one's own. When it comes to adopt a child in India, it is an act to establish a person who is not a child's parent as a parent. It can be seen as a social, legal and emotional process through which a child not gets raised by birth parents but by his legal parents or foster parents who have adopted the child. The adopted child receives all the privileges, rights and responsibilities of adoptive parents. In India, the concept of child adoption is not new. The roots of adoption can be seen...

Divorce is a big life disruptor that may cause a great deal of stress—financial, emotional, and even spiritual and thus is one of the most traumatic events that can happen to any marriage. Divorce gets associated with religion in India since it is a personal affair. The Divorce Process in India is governed by the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 for Jains, Sikhs, Hindus, and Buddhists. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act,1939, rules divorce laws for Muslims, the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act,1936 governs divorce laws for Parsis, and the Indian Divorce A...

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act is a comprehensive act that came into force in November 2012. The Ministry of Women and Child Development introduced the act. Commonly known as POCSO Act, the act deals with offences related to children. This act addresses heinous crimes and protects a child from sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography. The enactment of this act increased the scope of reporting sexual crimes against children. The POCSO Act, 2012 lays down the punishment for exposing children to any kind of sexual offence. The...

From the free consent granted to the parties to begin the relationship as spouses to mutual permission to separate as strangers, consent plays a crucial role in all stages of marriage. Mutual divorce and even alimony facilitate the formal separation procedure. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsis, and Jews are the five major communities in our culture. Each group has its own set of personal rules based on religious texts, customs, and traditions. As a result, the grounds for divorce and alimony for a Hindu woman may differ from community to community. An...

Marriages, indeed, formed in paradise, but the mother-in-law, sister-in-law, husband, and other relatives are actively involved in the dissolution of marriage for the thirst of dowry. Dowry death, murder-suicide, and bride burning are indicators of a strange social sickness and an awful dowry cases trend in our culture. Since it is practised by practically every sector of society, regardless of religion, caste, or creed, India has experienced the dark ills of the dowry system in a more intense form in almost all sections of the nation during the previou...