Andhra Pradesh High Court has dissolved a marriage solemnised in 1972 between a couple who have lived separately since 1978, waiving the ma...

Bombay High Court has ruled that a divorced wife can continue to recover maintenance already awarded to her, including arrears, from her la...

A woman received Rs 20 lakh in permanent alimony as part of a divorce settlement. Despite agreeing to withdraw all cases, she continued cri...

The Bombay High Court has made a significant ruling. It states that a wife's allegation of impotency against her husband during divorce pro...

In 2025, the Odisha High Court validated a divorce decree, affirming that a wife's demeaning remarks about her husband's physical disabilit...

The Telangana High Court affirmed that khula is a Muslim woman's right to divorce, but it must be processed through the courts for legal va...

UCC may take a nuanced position on coparcenary rights of male heirs in the Hindu Undivided Family system, citing equal succession rights fo...

The Delhi High Court sentenced a woman to one month in jail for violating divorce settlement terms in hope of a better outcome, which the c...

The Supreme Court of India has ruled that it can grant divorce to consenting parties in cases of "irretrievable breakdown" of marriage usin...

In his capacity as the Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday issued a law to regulate p...

A SC bench today said a fresh five-judge constitution bench would be set up to deal with the constitutionality of 'nikah halala' and polyga...

Many have long deplored the persistence among Indian Muslims of the practice of talaq-e-biddat, in which a man unilaterally dissolves his m...

The first reported verdict pertaining to triple talaq was delivered in a Bombay case in 1906 in which Justice Batchelor had termed triple t...

'Stridhan' is movable or immovable assets, received during the lifetime, by a woman either prior to marriage or at the time of marriage or ...

A woman has an inalienable right to 'streedhan' and can claim it even after her separation from her husband, the Supreme Court has said in ...

The Supreme Court on April 6 allowed a petition by a divorced Muslim woman for enhancement of maintenance from her ex-husband.

Irretrievable breakdown of marriage doesn't account for divorce, says SC.