Time limit for Filing Appeal against Divorce Decree

Divorced Hindu spouses, on getting a decree of divorce, can remarry: if the parties have no right to appeal as in the case of mutual consent divorce if the time for right of appeal has expired without the parties filing an appeal or if the court dismissed the appeal filed before it (Section 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 (HMA) Therefore a divorce decree holder, who is eager to marry another person as soon as possible, needs to know when the period for filing ends. One law says its 30 days but another law says it is 90 days. The Supreme Court in 2002 and many High Courts in later years directed the government of India to bring an end to this confusion but nothing has happened.

Cruelty: A flourishing Ground for Divorce

Cruelty is an adequate ground for dissolving a marriage solemnized under a valid law, on a petition filed by either of the party in marriage. But what constitutes cruelty is not spelt out in law. This creates some confusion among the stakeholders of divorce petition and they bring in anything and everything under the sun as an instance of cruelty to get a quick divorce which the law has never envisaged at all.

Restraining the Arrest of the Accused in 498A Cases

On one hand the women continue to suffer under violence with no much hope for the victims to have easy access to justice despite having those laws on our statute book. On the other, some of these provisions are largely being misused by educated and powerful sections of disgruntled women as a sharp weapon, rather than a shield, to harass their innocent husbands and their relatives.