If one is compassionate enough to adopt a child one must be fearless. In other words, fear of adoption cannot be a hindrance to actually going ahead and adopting a child.The Hindu religion believes that a biological offspring alone is the legitimate natural child and the second child is the adopted...
All Muslim marriages must be in compliance with Muslim personal law. The original concept of Divorce has undergone sea changes after the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939 was enacted. Conforming to this Act the concept of judicial divorce emerged in the context of Muslim marriages empowering ...
Chapter II of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 is empowering for any couple seeking to adopt a child. Adoption in layman's terms refers to the creation of a parent-child relationship which is non-existent through the natural process. In the olden days, adoption amongst Hindus was conside...
Children of any social or economic status are negatively impacted by a divorce. The divorce process can be antagonistic and the fallout is that children are the worst sufferers in the middle of what may seem like a disaster. Kids are in fact far more deeply affected by divorce than what was thought ...
The right of easement is a well-established right since time immemorial. An easement is essentially an entitlement to a certain land that the owner or occupier possesses and thereby derives benefit from the piece of land to either do and keep on doing something or to hold back and continue to hold b...
Marriage is an institution that has been undergoing sweeping changes as couples united in matrimony have been continually redefining the concept of marriage. Society's way of dealing with marriage and its outcome has undergone changes in its entirety. As far back as only a decade ago marriage was he...
What is Arbitration? The process to resolve dispute outside the court is known as arbitration. Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute redressal (ADR) in which a dispute is submitted by the agreement or will of both the parties to arbitrators who make a binding decision on the dispute. In this ...
Triple talak has always been a debatable and a controversial topic. Despite of new laws coming up for the protection of Muslim women, there are still people in the community who believe that Triple Talak should not be banned and still continues the practice.In this blog I shall discuss about Triple ...
A man and a woman not married, but having a live-in relationship is enough for the woman who is entitled to maintenance under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. But merely living a live-in relationship is not entitled to get maintenance. The woman has to show that though there was n...
The Partition Act (1893) authorizes one of claiming entitlement over his/her shares. The article essentially focuses on the underlying laws that are the guidelines of the division of property in India and the actions one may take in dealing with contentions over partition seamlessly and effectively....