Law Relating to Cruelty to Husband: Divorce and Maintenance to Wife |
Contents
Table of Cases | xxvii |
R R R R R Z Z K K K K | xxxix |
List of Statutes and Documents Referred | xlvii |
Word Wife | 1 |
Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage | 2 |
Decree for Restitution of Conjugal Rights | 3 |
Constitutional Law and Matrimonial Cases | 5 |
Status of Bride | 13 |
Hindu Marriage Act 1955 Sections 24 and 26 | 134 |
Family Courts | 140 |
Appeal to Supreme Court | 146 |
Power of Court to Increase the Quantum | 148 |
The Arya Marriage Validation Act 1937 | 154 |
34 | 161 |
The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 | 176 |
The Family Courts Act 1984 | 198 |
Celebration of Marriage in Proper Form | 19 |
Remarriage | 26 |
Test of Cruelty | 32 |
Restitution of Conjugal Rights | 44 |
NNNNN XXX | 53 |
CHAPTER 2 | 55 |
Deserted Wifes Equity | 56 |
Proceedings in Camera | 61 |
Definition of Cruelty | 67 |
Removal of Mangalsutra by Wife | 71 |
Hindu Marriage Act 1955 Section 13 | 77 |
Petition for Judicial Separation Maintenance and Return of Ornaments | 85 |
22 | 91 |
Wife Physically Assaulting Husband | 97 |
Divorce | 99 |
Family Courts Act 1984 Power under | 106 |
Ground of Adultery and Cruelty Intention of Husband | 111 |
Decree of Divorce Modified to Judicial Separation | 117 |
223 | 122 |
Determination as to Jurisdiction | 123 |
Object of Section 11 of the Indian Divorce Act 1869 Christian Law | 125 |
Husbands Plea Wife is Earning | 131 |
The Foreign Marriage Act 1969 | 205 |
The Foreign Marriage Rules 1970 | 214 |
The Muslim Personal Law Shariat Application Act 1937 | 230 |
The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act 1936 | 238 |
The Special Marriage Act 1954 | 251 |
CHAPTER 6 | 262 |
ALLIED ACTS RULES RELEVANT PROVISIONS | 271 |
The Constitution of India | 282 |
The Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 | 286 |
The General Clauses Act 1897 | 298 |
The Indian Penal Code 45 of 1860 | 304 |
The Young Persons Harmful Publications Act 1956 | 316 |
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights 1966 | 325 |
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman | 332 |
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man 1948 | 338 |
Petition for Judicial Separation General | 344 |
Affidavit accompanying an application for time for the production | 350 |
Affidavit in support of an application under section 24 of | 356 |
Additional Bond | 362 |
Petition for withdrawal of a case by the party under section 257 of the Code | 368 |
| 374 | |
Common terms and phrases
Adoptions and Maintenance adultery alimony alleged amount to cruelty application certificate child clause Code of Criminal conduct conjugal rights consent Constitution of India Cr LJ Criminal Procedure Cruelty by Wife custody declaration decree of divorce Devi dissolution of marriage entitled facts and circumstances Family Court Family Courts Act filed granted ground of cruelty held High Court Hindu Adoptions Hindu Marriage Act husband and wife Impotency Indian Penal Code interim maintenance judicial separation jurisdiction Kaur Kumar Mah LJ Maintenance Act Mangalsutra marital Marriage Officer Marriage Registrar married mental cruelty Muslim offence parties pendente lite person Petition by Husband petition for divorce petitioner proceedings proved provisions Registration of Marriage residence restitution of conjugal SCC Cri section 13 section 24 sexual intercourse Sharma Singh solemnised solemnized Special Marriage Act spouse sub-section Subs suit Union of India void voidable marriage