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‘Child not comfortable with her mother’; Patna High Court upholds Family Court’s decision of giving daughter’s custody to her father

The Patna High Court observed that the daughter wanted to reside with her brother and father and was not comfortable in staying with her mother, thus, the Court upheld the Family Court’s decision of giving the daughter’s custody to her father.

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court condemns a scornful society that sees misfortune with the birth of a girl child and reduces punishment in the instance of ‘Nalla Thangal Syndrome’

Madras High Court: In a case where a mother administered poison to her daughters and she survived but the daughters died, D.

Case Briefs High Courts

Mother alleged to have extra-marital affair, will father be granted custody of children? Guj HC decides

Gujarat High Court: Ashok Kumar C. Joshi, J., denied granting child custody to father, wherein the mother was alleged to have extra-marital

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

In joint custody of child, can mother unilaterally decide on child’s citizenship? Singapore Family Court decides

District Court Appeal (Family Division): Debbie Ong, J., while granting joint custody of a child to mother and father held that the

Case Briefs High Courts

Due to father’s field job, mother granted custody of child: Did Chh HC also grant contact and visitation right to father? Read

Chhattisgarh High Court: In a child custody battle, the Division Bench of Goutam Bhaduri and Rajani Dubey, JJ., reiterated the position of

Case Briefs High Courts

Couples have to make their choice at the threshold between career prospects and family life; HP HC observes in a case where a mother seeks job transfer to be with her daughter

Himachal Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Satyen Vaidya, JJ. dismissed the petition being devoid merits. The

Case Briefs High Courts

Son ousted benighted widowed mother, deprived her right to “live a normal life” apart from maintaining and supporting her livelihood: Bom HC

Bombay High Court: G.S. Kulkarni, J., while addressing another unfortunate case concerning a mother who was ousted from the tenement she owned

Case Briefs High Courts

Law on Maintenance | Father having to bear expenses of other dependents can ignore from sharing equal responsibility of son’s educational expenses? Bom HC elaborates

Bombay High Court: Expressing that mother and father are equally responsible to equally share the education expenses of the child, Division bench

Case Briefs High Courts

Law on Custody | Husband alleged to have been cause of wife’s death who committed suicide. Will this be a consideration for granting custody to father of corpus? All HC elaborates

Allahabad High Court: Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava, J., decided an issue with regard to the habeas corpus petition for custody of a

Case Briefs High Courts

Custody of minor child, can it be determined on basis of work commitment of one parent and availability of ample time with another? Bom HC decides while determining question of custody, visitation rights and more

Love and affection of both parents is considered to be the basic human right of a child.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi HC decides that Father’s obligation to maintain a child cannot end once he/she turns 18 years of age. Read why

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., while allowing in part the revision petition filed challenging the Family Court’s maintenance order made a

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | Extra-marital affair cannot lead to conclusion that woman would not be a good mother; HC grants custody of 4-year-old to the mother

Punjab and Haryana High Court: In a habeas corpus case regarding custody of the child the Bench of Anupinder Singh Grewal, J.,

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | In minor’s custody case, where child is below 5 years of age, mother is preferred, but is there any exception to it? Court explains

“Human affairs can never be disposed of by a rubber stamp approach or the application, virtually of mathematical formulae.”

Case Briefs High Courts

MP HC | Custody of the child with the mother can not be said to be illegal confinement; Court dismisses petition

Madhya Pradesh High Court: S.A.Dharmadhikari J., dismissed a writ petition which was filed invoking the jurisdiction of the Court under Article 226

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Welfare of child as paramount consideration: Father of minor given custody for mother not being able to take care of the child

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of A.S. Chandurkar and N.B. Suryawanshi, JJ., determined the factors in regard to grant of custody of

Op Eds OP. ED.

No Legal Rationale for Primacy – Revisiting Section 6(a) of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956

by Palak Maheshwari† and Aniket Pandey††

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | Mother posting video on social media being painted on nude body by minors to teach sex education: Prima facie use of children for sexual gratification

Kerala High Court: P. V. Kunhikrishnan, J., addressed a matter wherein a mother uploaded a video on social media wherein she was getting

Case Briefs High Courts

Daughter acts as ostensible agent of her mother : Kerala HC

Kerala High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Dama Seshadri Naidu, J. while hearing a civil writ petition ruled that a