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Avik  Chakravorty
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The travails of LGBTI equality in India


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

The premise of human rights is rooted in the essence of it that every human being is to be treated equally with dignity without any prejudices. Anything undermining that dignity is considered an infringement of the very essence of equality and is the surest way to discrimination. The lesbian, g...

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Avik Chakravorty

Divorce Laws in India Revisited


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

The recognition of the legal or formal union of two people as partners in a personal relationship is marriage and when a marriage is legally or formally ended the legal or formal ending of a marriage is divorce.Couples going through divorce are quite perturbed by the ensuing events during and afterm...

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Avik Chakravorty

Adoption Hitches


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Adoption these days is no big deal as the adopted child hardly ever wants to know who his /her biological parents is. It’s an agonizingly trying time during this period of life which is most crucial for any adoptive parent. However, the fact of the matter is that numerous issues crop up in the ten...

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Avik Chakravorty

What are the Signs You Need to Hire a Child Custody Lawyer?


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

If one is in a bind deciding whether a child custody lawyer actually ought to be hired one ought to know that representing oneself pro se is an option at all times. However, there are also times when even with the necessary grit and determination of representing oneself pro se does not cut it. ...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

In the Age of Social Media, Human Rights Revisited


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

As one of the world’s new and emerging economies, India’s Dalits are manual scavengers rummaging through and cleaning the dry toilets of other people who are high caste and carting their human waste. The menfolk usually clean the sewer and the septic tanks while the womenfolk would be carting pi...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

Adopting a Child in India


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Adoptions were dissolved in recent times at an alarming rate over a period of few years which resulted in an outcry. Experts and observers working in adoption reminisce that a few years ago there were a handful of dissolution cases. What dissolution of adoption essentially means is that after g...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

Children’s Entitlement in Father’s Property


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Introduction?As coparceners sons and daughters have numerous birthrights as well as the right to survivorship in the ancestral property. Owing to the Right to Survivorship if a coparcener passes away the property is partitioned amongst the other surviving coparceners. The coparceners joint...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

Domestic Violence and Abuse


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Are domestic violence and abuse one and the same?Contrary to popular belief domestic abuse and violence aren’t one and the same. Any attempts by a person intimately involved in a marital relationship or any other type of intimate bonding at overpowering the other are known as domestic abuse. ...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

Advice on Divorce


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Advice for Women who get DivorcedBeing a woman, emotions run high. Emotions have to be put aside though when dealing with divorce and one has to think logically one step at a time about what may be the cost from a financial, social and legal perspective.  Get Acquainted – Most women, in ...

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Avik  Chakravorty
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Avik Chakravorty

New Rules in Divorce Laws


Written By : Avik Chakravorty

Any divorce law in India aims at exploring the probability of settling marital disputes and whether couples can cohabit. Nonetheless, if there isn’t any possibility under any circumstances whatsoever of couples reworking or saving their marriage then in that case granting divorce resulting in the ...

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