Marriage
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Power of Civil Courts to grant Injunction to Restrain one spouse from entering into Second Marriage
One of the issues that is regularly encountered before the Civil Court and Family Court in Matrimonial Disputes is “Whether they have jurisdiction to grant an injunction in favour of… Read more.
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Constitutionality of Marital Rape in India: From Law Commission Reports to Substantive Testing
Listen to the article here. In the process of the Delhi High Court on 10 January, 2022 continuing the hearing of petititons on Marital Rape, there is unclarity on its… Read more.
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Ordinance Criminalising Conversion for Marriage: A Debacle for India
Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, has recently promulgated The Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, which requires religious conversion to be scrutinised and certified by the state.… Read more.
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Drawing the line between Active and Deliberate Consent and No Consent in cases of Sexual Intercourse on Promise of Marriage
Introduction Under Section 375 IPC[i], Rape has been defined as certain sexual acts when committed on a female, under any of the circumstances mentioned under Section 375 IPC. If you… Read more.
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Consummation of Marriage, Not as easy as you think: Analyzing Non-consummation as a ground to annul Marriage
In today’s society you will find many couples desperate to annul (putting an end) their marriage on the basis that it had not been consummated. Britney Spears hit the headlines… Read more.
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Re-examining the Marital Rape Exemption
“The study of inequality” should be concerned with power at its extremities, in its ultimate destinations, with those points where it becomes capillary.” M. FOUCAULT The existence of marital exemption… Read more.
