The Armed Forces Tribunal, commonly known as the AFT, is a specialised judicial forum created under the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 to decide service disputes of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, including retired personnel, dependants, heirs and successors in service-related matters. It also hears appeals arising from court martial findings, sentences and orders....
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Father’s Rights in Child Custody A father can claim custody, visitation, shared parenting, school access, medical information and meaningful contact with his child in India. However, the father does not have an automatic right to custody merely because he is the natural guardian under personal law. Indian courts decide custody and visitation on the basis...
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Family Law • Child Custody & Access Child Visitation and Access Rights in India: Interim Access, Overnight Custody, Video Calls, Enforcement & Parental Alienation A current guide to visitation and contact orders, weekend and overnight access, virtual contact, enforcement, relocation, child preference, parental alienation and the welfare test in Indian family-law proceedings. Child visitation rights...
Read MoreIn India, child custody is decided not on the superiority of the mother, father, or any relative, but on the welfare and best interest of the child. Courts examine the child’s age, education, emotional security, health, stability, parental conduct, financial capacity, moral environment, and, where the child is mature enough, the child’s preference. The law...
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A working wife is not automatically barred from claiming maintenance in India. However, a husband can legally challenge maintenance where the wife has sufficient independent income, is financially self-sustaining, is concealing employment or assets, has exaggerated expenses, or is seeking overlapping maintenance in multiple proceedings. Under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, either spouse...
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Yes. A husband can seek divorce in India on the ground of mental cruelty if false, reckless, scandalous or malicious allegations by the wife make it unreasonable for him to continue the matrimonial relationship. False allegations of adultery, dowry demand, domestic violence, illegitimacy, immoral conduct, criminal behaviour, or abusive complaints to employers, police authorities and...
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The reported Supreme Court plea filed after the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 raises a question larger than one medical entrance examination: whether India’s national testing architecture can continue to command constitutional confidence when allegations of paper leak, compromised question security and institutional failure recur in high-stakes examinations. The petition reportedly seeks replacement or restructuring of the National Testing Agency, a fresh NEET-UG 2026 examination under judicial supervision, constitution of a high-powered monitoring committee, digital locking of question papers, transition towards computer-based testing, CBI status reporting, and publication of centre-wise results for anomaly detection.
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Summary A husband in India is not automatically liable to pay any amount demanded as maintenance or alimony merely because a matrimonial dispute has arisen. At the same time, he cannot defeat maintenance by emotional allegations, artificial poverty, inflated liabilities or concealment of income. Indian courts decide maintenance on the basis of need, capacity, income,...
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Introduction: Fathers Are Not Legal Strangers to Their Children One of the most persistent myths in Indian matrimonial litigation is that child custody is automatically a mother’s right and that the father’s role is limited to paying school fees, maintenance and weekend expenses. That is not the law. Indian courts do not treat a child...
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Introduction: When Matrimonial Litigation Becomes Criminal Litigation Matrimonial litigation in India often begins as a marital breakdown but quickly travels into criminal law. A divorce dispute may be accompanied by allegations of cruelty, dowry demand, domestic violence, misappropriation of jewellery, economic abuse, intimidation, assault, and harassment by the husband’s family. Some complaints are genuine. Some...
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