Legal questions on Family Law

Can I apply for nullity of marriage

I got married on 26/04/2024.. now it's 5 months After one month of my marriage I came to know about my husband's relationship with a lady for about three years . they were in live in relationship like husband and wife without getting married... When I asked about this with my husband again he lied to me like that lady is blackmailing me to be with her and misleading me to be with her my inte...

Divorce

I'm a married girl. I got married 8 months ago. It was an arranged marriage. I never talked to him before marriage which is why I didn't knew what type of person he is. Once I got married to him, I instantly started seeing his actual self which includes him being a big mouth (liar) and have a boasting personality and egoistic. Before he said that he never touched any kind of drink or drugs but ...

How long does it take to get devorce in india if it's a mutual consent divorce?

I have been married for almost a year now.my husband lied to me about his smoking habits even though when I asked him before marriage.i am a home maker and living in other country with him.he lied to me about his personality he said he was a very calm person but in reality he is very rude and short tempered..every time we fight he records our fights as proofs he acts calm when he turn on record...

Divorce, child custody, alimony

Hello sir/ Madam, I would like to seek a divorce from my wife. We have been married for 11 years now but living separately since September 2019 as initially she faked her mental illness and later on she had an extra marital affair. After her first affair I reconciled for my kids future to avoid a broken family. However she still went ahead and pursued another affair with second person after 3 y...

My husband planning to leave

My sister is living with her husband in his family's home along with his parents. They used to have many issues between them mainly due to parents' and his sister's interference. Things were not going well but my sister adjusted a lot since she loved him but he never made any efforts and used to gossip and taunt my sister along with his family. Recently out of surprise her husband suggested tha...

Since 4 years my husband is away from me and my son

I am married in june'2017and stay in Hyderabad.My son born in MAr'2018. I only spent all expenses for my delivery and child vaccination till 1 year. during my son's 1st first birthday due to arguments between me my mother-in-law my in-laws didnot turnup to my son's 1st birthday party. Later my husband and my in-laws planned behind me and targetted on me to make my character bad in front of my p...

Wife with 2 children at in-laws home from last 5 months, not coming home

Dear all experts, This is my situation, please advise what I can do here. Marriage: April, 2007 From my side: I am not clear on what to do whether to file for divorce or go with a legal way to bring her back. Since last May, My wife has been at her father’s home (in the same city) and is unwilling to return. The quarrels at my home started when my father and mother started living w...

Mental torture for my sister by his husband

My sister got married 3 years ago, beginning both of the couple are good, after sometime her husband started to mentally torture her by doubting her, not providing good foods, he won't buy even milk for her. When she got tooth problem he sent her to our house for the treatment. After 1 year we asked him to come to hospital for check up any problems for not becoming a parent for a child, he neve...

Brother wife mental torture

Myself with elderly parents and my second brother and his family live in a joint family. My second brother got married 21 years ago. My Brother wife(Poornima Devi,School Teacher) and his parents insults my family members and past 7 years she acts like mentally disturbed and torturing my elderly parents and behaving rude with me. Due to her insults I stopped talking to her almost 12 years and I ...

Disowning one of my parents.

We have two family businesses and my father runs one of them. My grandfather is still alive and he owns all of it. There is a profit share between four members my father, my grandfather, my grandfather's brother, and my father's brother. But my father never takes his cut from profits. He's a very shy guy. He does all the work and doens't get anything. He is also a bad husband because he used to...

My wife forcing me to get divorce she don't want to initiate it wants me to initiate

Hi, My wife is sort of antisocial, I didn't know that prior to this arranged marriage in 2021. She is very aggressive, abusive, sometimes tries to beat. She doesn't have good relation with her own mother and sister. She abuses then as well. We reckon she must be suffering from some personality disorder. We counselled a psychiatrist as well she took medication, till that time she was able to ...

Husband not ready to live with me after one month of marriage.

On July 7, 2024, I got married. From the beginning, we have misunderstandings because of marriage arrangements. After marriage, he has not shown love and affection to me. He spoke rudely with me. After 5 days of marriage, he told me that I was not fit for us. After one week, his brother scolded him because he treated me without respect and he asked me to separate. After that, our family asked f...

What should I do in a toxic household

I have lived in a toxic home since childhood. But as I grew up these things became even worse. There were daily fights and arguments. My mother and father never understood me. My father always criticizes me. If there is a fight between my mother and father then he always tries to hit her and abuse her. They even says go and die or I'll kill you. Leave the house right now or I'll leave. Even my ...

False allegations and dowry case on husband and claiming maintenance

My brother married a divorcee on 15.04.24. She stayed with our family for about 2 months (from 22.4.24 to 27.6.24 - visited her parents for around 3 weeks so the net stay in my parents house was only about 40 days). She left the family claiming she's not comfortable to stay with my parents and came back with a big gang of about 15 people on 18.8.24 and created a huge ruckus infront our house, d...

My in-laws not supporting my husband(their son)

Hi, My husband doing business. They are 2 sons to their parents. My husband is older one, both are married. We live in bengaluru n my in-laws live with younger son in native. They help is younger sin financially in all aspects like bought tractor to him n all. But my husband studied on loan n he paid installments. He gave all his pf money to his brother marriage. And after that during covid tim...

Residential Right

I got married in November 2017 and became a mother to a son in December 2018. My mother-in-law was a cruel lady from the beginning of our marriage, but I managed to cope. My husband was very irresponsible, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, he started drinking heavily, leading to numerous issues in our marriage. Then, in October 2020, on my husband's advice, I went to my parents' home for some t...

My husband is emotionally available and never admited anything

I got married like a year before, he never supported me emotionally even physically. If I am sick he doesn't care. Soon after marriage I had a miscarriage and he did not show any emotional and physical support. I adored all the pain alone. We have been moved to Canada, it's been 3 months and still I am alone doing all the responsibilities, groceries, house chores, if I am crying he never wipes ...

Rights to residency for a women after a divorce

Situation: A husband put an application for a divorce against the wife on a cruelty basis. A wife is a very argumentative person, who does not respect her husband and parents in law. She provoked very unpleasant situation in many years but her husband and parents in law were always forgiving and hoping that she would change. Unfortunately it didn't happen. Husband had many bruises on his body w...

Fraud and mental torture

I got married in January this year in an arrange marriage setup. I didn’t felt much attachment in the courtship period. However, I thought that this might be his nature which might change after marriage. After a few week of marriage I observed continuous calls and messages from one of his male friend. The class were not normal, I mean 5-6 continuous missed calls which my husband didn’t picked. ...

Need Guidance on Maintenance and Divorce

Hello sir. I am Sandeep. I have been married since May 2007. We were together for almost 16 years. I was attracted towards a girl from my office and was involved in physical relationship with my fellow colleague. I had confessed that and since then we have not been in good terms and have been falling apart emotionally and physically. We all used to stay together with my parents however, due to...