Child Custody Battle

Observing that a 14-year-old child cannot be treated as "chattel", the Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Orissa High Court allowing the biological father of a girl her custody, saying she was living happily with her paternal aunt.

The Bengaluru woman accused of murdering her four-year-old son in a hotel room in Goa - reportedly over a bitter custody battle with her husband - has kept her emotions in check, so far, and shows no remorse, police sources told NDTV.

The latest media reports indicate child welfare officials in Sydney in Australia are reviewing the child custody case after Priyadarshini Patil's suicide, and are in touch with their father, Ms Patil's husband.

Sharon Stone claimed that the scene in the movie was "weaponised against her" in the battle for Roan's custody, the child she had adopted in 2000 with her ex-husband Phil Bronstein.

The Delhi High Court has granted permission to a woman to take her five-and a half-year-old daughter to the United States where she is relocating with her second husband.

Coming to the rescue of a 10-year-old girl given in adoption in a battle for custody between two women, the Madras High Court has ruled the minor cannot be separated from her foster mother who had cared and nurtured the child for a decade.

One year of waiting and weeks-long tough legal battle, protests and controversies finally came to an end as a family court granted Anupama S Chandran and her partner Ajith the custody of their child on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court, hearing a custody battle between a couple over their 11-year-old boy, today directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to bring the child back from Kenya and register a criminal case against the father.

Cherone Coleman was worried. In March, she had split from her fiance, Martin Pereira. Now the couple was waging war in a Queens courtroom over the custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Zoey.

An Indian-born US woman has been asked to return to the US along with her toddler daughter by the Delhi High Court which left it to the jurisdiction of American court to decide the child's custody issue pending there.

The six-month-old daughter of the Pakistani woman and her Pakistani American husband who massacred 14 people in California last week is at the centre of a custody battle between their relatives and the state.

The Rajasthan High Court today ruled that a five month old infant, who was given away by his parents in adoption to a religious guru in Madhya Pradesh, will stay with his parents.

A child brought into the world, Sofia said, needs "more than a mother, it needs a loving relationship of parents"

A Malaysian court today ordered the arrest of an Indian-origin teacher's former husband after he failed to return their youngest child to her, media reports said.

The loss in child custody battle was the prime reason behind a fire set out by the mother of an Indian-origin boy which killed both of them in Britain, the kid's father has said.

Observing that a 14-year-old child cannot be treated as "chattel", the Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Orissa High Court allowing the biological father of a girl her custody, saying she was living happily with her paternal aunt.

The Bengaluru woman accused of murdering her four-year-old son in a hotel room in Goa - reportedly over a bitter custody battle with her husband - has kept her emotions in check, so far, and shows no remorse, police sources told NDTV.

The latest media reports indicate child welfare officials in Sydney in Australia are reviewing the child custody case after Priyadarshini Patil's suicide, and are in touch with their father, Ms Patil's husband.

Sharon Stone claimed that the scene in the movie was "weaponised against her" in the battle for Roan's custody, the child she had adopted in 2000 with her ex-husband Phil Bronstein.

The Delhi High Court has granted permission to a woman to take her five-and a half-year-old daughter to the United States where she is relocating with her second husband.

Coming to the rescue of a 10-year-old girl given in adoption in a battle for custody between two women, the Madras High Court has ruled the minor cannot be separated from her foster mother who had cared and nurtured the child for a decade.

One year of waiting and weeks-long tough legal battle, protests and controversies finally came to an end as a family court granted Anupama S Chandran and her partner Ajith the custody of their child on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court, hearing a custody battle between a couple over their 11-year-old boy, today directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to bring the child back from Kenya and register a criminal case against the father.

Cherone Coleman was worried. In March, she had split from her fiance, Martin Pereira. Now the couple was waging war in a Queens courtroom over the custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Zoey.

An Indian-born US woman has been asked to return to the US along with her toddler daughter by the Delhi High Court which left it to the jurisdiction of American court to decide the child's custody issue pending there.

The six-month-old daughter of the Pakistani woman and her Pakistani American husband who massacred 14 people in California last week is at the centre of a custody battle between their relatives and the state.

The Rajasthan High Court today ruled that a five month old infant, who was given away by his parents in adoption to a religious guru in Madhya Pradesh, will stay with his parents.

A child brought into the world, Sofia said, needs "more than a mother, it needs a loving relationship of parents"

A Malaysian court today ordered the arrest of an Indian-origin teacher's former husband after he failed to return their youngest child to her, media reports said.

The loss in child custody battle was the prime reason behind a fire set out by the mother of an Indian-origin boy which killed both of them in Britain, the kid's father has said.