• My wife asking for divorce with my gambling addiction and alcohol addiction

Hi,

We are married couple for 10 years ,she knows that I drink and told her during our marriage time but she told me to stop it after marriage and I accepted but didn’t stopped it .issues started one year after marriage but I’m not able to stop drinking also I was addicted to betting and lost 60 lakhs in this 10 years and there were couple of agreements between us to not to drink and not to gamble but gambling some how I stopped and drinking I was not able to stop at least 3 days a week I’m drimking,

Now I’m with 20 lakh debit and monthly salary of 1 lakhs .

She has good savings and her salary is around 3 lakhs per month , Now she is saying that she wants divorce and filed a case in police station . She has evidence like my bank statements , cctv footage which was recorded with my drunken act and few screen shots where I messaged with other lady 5 years ago . Now she threatening me to give mutual divorce or else she will threatening me to file a case on me and parents as well,but even though I failed to stop drinking I’m asking her to give one more chance to change my self but she denied . I don’t want her money but I need her what to do ? She collected all eveidence like whats app chat,CCTV footage which is always used to monitor by her parents ,She also has my phone access , .now seems she filed a divorce case on me under the grounds of cruelt 13 1 1a , i never lived alone with her in this 10 year, initial stage for around one to years her own brother is there which he took care of her salary and cards, later his neighbour was with us from last 6 years to 7 , She give money to me but i returned at least 50 percent in that , may be i used her money 10 to 15 lakhs but she is saying i used around 40 to 50 lakhs and i never took money from her forcibly, Also there is lot of involvement in her finance by her parents and brother.She spent money to them , i dont have any proof ,if she opens her bank statement every thing will be there. She always provokes me while i drink and evrythimg will be recorded im cctv with my shoutings, i broken glass table twice (years ago) not recently, now a days im changing my self and changing my self step by step by improving my past mistakes.
Asked 11 hours ago in Family Law
Religion: Hindu

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3 Answers

Contested divorce cases take over 5 years to be disposed of 

 

2) burden of proof is upon wife to prove allegations made in divorce cases 

 

3) you can also file appeal in HC in the event family court grants divorce 

 

4) best option is to divorce by mutual consent 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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You can interact with her in the court mediation session where the counselor may intervene and advise her to some extent.

But if she is adamant and determined then you have no option than to challenge her divorce case as per law and let the court decide.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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The way you wasted multiple opportunities to correct your course, i wonder your wife would wait anymore for you to change.

To err is human but to continue with it is habit.

Considering your position it is wise if you agree for mutual divorce. 

 

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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