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Short, neutral summaries of judgements on maintenance, custody, divorce and related matters — general information only, not legal advice, and not a substitute for reading the full order or speaking to an advocate about your own case.
Divorce — Cruelty and Childlessness · 30 Sept 2026
The couple married in 2007. The husband said the first six months were peaceful, after which his wife began to treat him with mental cruelty: she considered her…
High Court of Judicature at Madras (Madurai Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 477; 2026:MHC:4039; CMA(MD) No. 724 of 2022 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Delhi Rules, Eviction · 30 Sept 2026
A mother-in-law applied for eviction of her daughter-in-law from her property under Rule 22(3)(1) of the Delhi Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Cit…
High Court of Delhi · 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 941; W.P.(C) 11683/2022 · PDF available
Abetment of Suicide — Bail, Section 108 BNS · 29 Sept 2026
The father of a woman who died by suicide complained that she had been married to the accused for 15 years and had two daughters, and that she was harassed and …
High Court of Rajasthan (Jodhpur Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 412; 2026:RJ-JD:47609; S.B. Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 8080/2026 · PDF available
POCSO Act — Misuse in Custody Disputes · 24 Sept 2026
The parties married in 2011 and had a daughter, 'M', in 2015. After the marriage broke down, the mother left with the child in 2018, leading to years of guardia…
Supreme Court of India · 2026 INSC 1049; 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 982; Civil Appeal No. 13119 of 2026 (@ SLP(C) No. 1092/2024) with connected appeals · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Limits on Tribunal's Jurisdiction · 23 Sept 2026
A 68-year-old man sought eviction of his daughter and son-in-law from his Lalitpur home under Sections 22 and 23 of the Senior Citizens Act, alleging they had f…
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad · 2026:AHC:193275-DB; WRIT-C No. 36504 of 2026 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Section 23(1) Cancellation of Transfer · 21 Sept 2026
An octogenarian father executed a settlement deed and family arrangement conveying properties to his son, saying it was out of love and affection on the underst…
High Court of Judicature at Madras · WP No. 46726 of 2025 · PDF available
Transfer of Matrimonial Proceedings · 19 Sept 2026
A wife filed a transfer petition to move divorce proceedings brought by her husband from the Family Court at Alwar to Jaipur, saying she lived in Jaipur with no…
High Court of Rajasthan · 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 384 · PDF available
Child Custody — Removal of Child From Abroad · 18 Sept 2026
The child was born in the US, is a US citizen, and had spent most of her life in Oregon. Her father filed separation proceedings there in February 2025; the Ore…
High Court for the State of Telangana · 2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 155; Writ Petition No. 29562 of 2025 · PDF available
Right to Privacy — Masking of Names in Court Records · 17 Sept 2026
A software professional was named as an accused under Sections 323, 504 and 506 IPC in a case at Udham Singh Nagar. After a compounding application, the High Co…
High Court of Uttarakhand · 2026:UHC:8409; WPCRL/1438/2026 · PDF available
Child Welfare Committee — Informal Adoption · 17 Sept 2026
A child born prematurely in February 2023 was handed over by his biological parents to the petitioners on the day of birth, and a notarised but unregistered ado…
High Court at Calcutta · WPA No. 13525 of 2026 · PDF available
Succession — Joint Hindu Family Presumption · 17 Sept 2026
Two brothers sued their sister and her husband, seeking a declaration that the Will of their deceased third brother in favour of one plaintiff was void, a decla…
High Court of Madhya Pradesh · 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 370; F.A. No. 280 of 2003 · PDF available
Section 125 CrPC — Maintenance to Parents · 16 Sept 2026
An 80-year-old father, who ran a business in appliances and computers and had given his son a 50% share, claimed maintenance from his son under Section 125 CrPC…
High Court of Judicature at Madras · 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 449; CRL RC No. 97 of 2026 · PDF available
Interim Maintenance — Section 24 HMA · 16 Sept 2026
The parties married on 25 October 2015 and began living separately in November 2020. The wife filed for divorce on the ground of cruelty and sought interim main…
High Court of Delhi · 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 880; MAT.APP.(F.C.) 439/2024 · PDF available
Child Custody — Visitation Travel Burden · 11 Sept 2026
The couple's younger child was already living with the mother in Honnavar, while their elder son, aged 10, lived with and attended school in Bengaluru. A Family…
High Court of Karnataka · 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 346 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Tribunal's Eviction Power · 10 Sept 2026
An elderly man sought eviction of his son and daughter-in-law from his self-acquired house in Kanpur under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Cit…
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad · 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 688; WRIT-C No. 20540 of 2026 · PDF available
Section 498A — Quashing for Vague Allegations · 10 Sept 2026
A woman had accused her husband — since deceased — of subjecting her to dowry-related mental and physical cruelty from the second day of the marriage, alleging …
High Court at Calcutta · CRR 460 of 2023 · PDF available
Child Custody — Judicial Conduct · 10 Sept 2026
A Family Court in Pune granted custody of a minor boy to his father, with the judge observing that a child's future would be "unsafe" with a mother who does not…
High Court of Judicature at Bombay · 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 443; Family Court Appeal (Stamp No) 16488 of 2026 · PDF available
Maintenance — Post-Divorce & Major Child · 10 Sept 2026
A husband obtained an ex parte decree of divorce in June 2022; his wife's application to have that decree set aside remained pending. She and the couple's daugh…
High Court at Calcutta · CRR 1438 of 2024 · PDF available
Section 498A IPC — Relatives vs. Husband · 9 Sept 2026
The husband and six of his relatives sought quashing of a Section 498A IPC case filed by his wife, alleging vague and omnibus dowry-harassment claims and pointi…
High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam · 2026:KER:68282; 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 497; Crl.M.C. No. 228 of 2026 · PDF available
Surrogacy — Age Limit Upheld · 9 Sept 2026
A couple began fertility treatment in 2022, while the husband was still under 55, and successfully cryopreserved embryos that August. They obtained a medical ce…
High Court of Kerala (Ernakulam) · 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 494; WA No. 1318 of 2026 · PDF available
Divorce — Cruelty & Permanent Alimony · 8 Sept 2026
Kannada actor B.R. Vijay Kumar ('Duniya Vijay') sought divorce from his wife, Nagarathna, on grounds of cruelty. The wife alleged, among other things, that he h…
High Court of Karnataka · 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 341 · PDF available
Maintenance — Post-Divorce Alimony · 8 Sept 2026
After a decree of divorce had already been passed, a question arose over whether the divorced wife could still apply for permanent alimony under Section 25 of t…
High Court of Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 357; MA-2136-2016 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Shared Household · 8 Sept 2026
A mother-in-law sought the eviction of her estranged daughter-in-law from a residential property, under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citize…
High Court of Punjab and Haryana · LPA-2464-2026 · PDF available
Divorce — Mere FIR Not Cruelty · 5 Sept 2026
A couple married in February 2009, had a daughter later that year, and had been living separately since August 2010. The husband sought divorce on the ground of…
High Court for the State of Telangana · 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 146 · PDF available
Divorce — Adultery Standard of Proof · 5 Sept 2026
A husband and wife married in 2006 and had a son in 2010. The husband alleged that his wife had an illicit relationship with the husband of her elder sister, cl…
High Court of Judicature at Patna · PDF available
Maintenance — Section 125(4) CrPC · 5 Sept 2026
The parties had been married since 1995 and lived together for more than 25 years without major disturbance. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the wife lef…
High Court of Karnataka · 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 331; RPFC No. 133/2024 · PDF available
DV Act Residence v. Senior Citizens Eviction · 3 Sept 2026
In 2018 a Judicial Magistrate partly allowed a daughter-in-law's application under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act, granting ₹11,000 a month for her and…
High Court of Judicature at Bombay · Writ Petition (Senior Citizens Act eviction) · PDF available
Section 498A IPC — Relationship in the Nature of Marriage · 2 Sept 2026
The complainant, separated from a previous marriage, said she met the petitioner in 2019, that he represented himself as an unmarried orphan and persuaded her t…
High Court at Calcutta · CRR 1457 of 2024; G.R. Case No. 2793 of 2022 · PDF available
Divorce — Adultery Pleading & Breakdown of Marriage · 2 Sept 2026
A husband sought divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery, but had not made her alleged partner a party to the case — a procedural defect the Family Cour…
High Court of Judicature at Madras (Madurai Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 420 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Gift Deed Cancellation · 2 Sept 2026
A mother-in-law had first challenged a gift deed she executed in favour of her daughter-in-law in a civil suit, claiming it was obtained by fraud and was never …
High Court of Karnataka (Bengaluru Bench) · PDF available
Child Custody — Joint Parenting & Due Process · 1 Sept 2026
Under an earlier consent arrangement tied to a property settlement, a father held exclusive custody of the couple's child while the mother had visitation rights…
High Court of Judicature at Bombay · 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 419 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — No Automatic In-Law Obligation · 1 Sept 2026
After her husband died, a widowed daughter-in-law was directed by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Tribunal to pay monthly maintenance…
High Court of Karnataka · 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 323; WP No. 12878 of 2026 · PDF available
DV Act — Relatives Living Separately · 28 Aug 2026
A wife married under Muslim rites left the matrimonial home with the couple's two children after marital discord and filed a domestic violence complaint against…
High Court of Gujarat · 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 232; Special Criminal Application No. 12673 of 2023 · PDF available
Divorce — Mental Cruelty · 27 Aug 2026
The couple married in June 2019. The husband said his wife did not accompany him to the matrimonial home after the wedding, went to her maternal home after two …
High Court of Judicature at Madras · 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 438; CMA No. 2942 of 2026 · PDF available
Cruelty Law — Who Counts as a 'Relative' · 27 Aug 2026
A woman alleged prolonged physical and mental torture by her husband, and separately alleged that he was in an extra-marital relationship with another woman, Pu…
High Court at Calcutta · CRR 5550 of 2025 · PDF available
Domestic Violence Act — Independent of 498A Acquittal · 25 Aug 2026
A wife had filed a complaint under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, alleging her husband failed to take care of her and s…
High Court of Chhattisgarh · 2026 LiveLaw (Chh) 119; CRMP No. 1472 of 2025 · PDF available
Maintenance — Child Support Cannot Be Halved · 20 Aug 2026
A couple, both qualified doctors, married in 2006 and had two daughters. After the marriage broke down, the wife left the matrimonial home and sought ₹2,50,000 …
Supreme Court of India · 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 839 · PDF available
Child Custody — Removal of Child in Breach of Orders · 19 Aug 2026
The mother said that in July 2026, while she was at the Family Court with the daughter, the father suddenly took the child away in his car to his sister's house…
High Court of Karnataka · 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 313; WP No. 24828 of 2026 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Tribunal's Eviction Power · 19 Aug 2026
Ravi Kant Gupta, the owner of a self-acquired house in Lucknow, approached the District Magistrate in June 2022 under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and…
Supreme Court of India · 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 824 · PDF available
Divorce — Cruelty · 19 Aug 2026
A husband sought divorce alleging his wife was quarrelsome with him and his parents from early in the marriage, had the family kitchen split off, continued to f…
High Court of Delhi · 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 764 · PDF available
Senior Citizens Act — Eviction Jurisdiction · 19 Aug 2026
A father sought eviction of his son and daughter-in-law from his self-acquired house in Lucknow under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens…
Supreme Court of India · 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 824 · PDF available
Bigamy — DNA Test Not Warranted · 17 Aug 2026
A man married in January 2011, and a son was born to the couple in 2012. The wife later learnt, she alleged, that he had concealed a subsisting earlier marriage…
High Court of Judicature at Madras (Madurai Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 390; Crl RC (MD) No. 17 of 2026 · PDF available
Maintenance — Factors Beyond Income · 11 Aug 2026
The couple had married in 1995 and had two children. After the wife sought maintenance in 2021, the Family Court awarded her ₹25,000 a month on an ad-interim ba…
High Court of Delhi · 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 745 · PDF available
Section 498A · 6 Aug 2026
Four years after marriage and one year after the birth of a daughter, the wife lodged an FIR claiming the husband had used medicines and black magic to induce m…
High Court of Rajasthan (Jaipur Bench) · 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 319
Divorce · 5 Aug 2026
The wife repeatedly demanded a separate residence away from the husband's aged parents and family members without establishing any misconduct or justifiable gri…
High Court of Kerala · Mat. Appeal No. 308/2022 | 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 431 · PDF available
Domestic Violence Act — Residence Order and Police Protectio · 3 Aug 2026
A woman and her son sought police protection, saying her former husband was threatening her and trying to force them out of the shared household, which they occ…
High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam · 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 479; 2026:KER:59206; W.P.(C) No. 18218 of 2026 · PDF available
Section 498A IPC — Live-In Relationships · 3 Aug 2026
A woman who had lived with a man in a long-term relationship described as being 'in the nature of marriage,' with an established mutual intent to marry, filed a…
Supreme Court of India · 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 753 · PDF available
Maintenance · 3 Aug 2026
The Family Court directed the father to maintain an ₹11 Lakh fixed deposit for the child while simultaneously ordering him to pay separate monthly child mainten…
High Court at Calcutta · CRR 146 of 2023 · PDF available
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